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President Joe Biden has issued an executive order permitting sanctions against Sudan. According to US sources, the step taken was aimed at bringing an end to the fighting. Biden described the violence as a tragedy and termed the developments in Sudan as a disloyalty to the Sudanese people
President Joe Biden has issued an executive order permitting sanctions against Sudan. According to US sources, the step taken was aimed at bringing an end to the fighting. Biden described the violence as a tragedy and termed the developments in Sudan as a disloyalty to the Sudanese people
Biden stated that the developments in Sudan caused an extraordinary and exceptional threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. Diplomatic circles speculate that the conflict may be a long drawn-out one since both sides believed they could win the war militarily. They have limited incentives to engage in negotiations.
There has been continuous heavy fighting in the capital, Khartoum, as well as in the adjacent cities of Omdurman and Bahri, despite a ceasefire. Many feel that once the expatriates from the country are evacuated, fighting may escalate. Many Western countries are calling upon the African Union to intervene at the earliest to bring peace to the region, which is mostly affecting the common people.
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According to the World Food Programme, an estimated US$13 million (£10.3 million) worth of food aid intended for Sudan has been looted. In the meantime, the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, has cautioned that the situation was on the brink of catastrophe, with children increasingly becoming victims of the conflict.
