Sudan's leadership holds peace talks while humanitarian access improves amid ongoing conflict
The ICRC resumed flights between Port Sudan and Khartoum for the first time since the war began, signaling improved humanitarian access. Meanwhile, government officials continue diplomatic engagement and peace negotiations, with the Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council meeting UN envoys and discussing new political pathways to end the conflict.
Why it matters
Sudan's war between the SAF and RSF, ongoing since April 2023, has produced one of the world's largest displacement and hunger crises and a genocide determination in Darfur. The dueling state-building efforts—Burhan's government in Port Sudan and the RSF/Tasis parallel administration—raise the prospect of a hardening territorial split, even as international mediators struggle to secure a ceasefire that both sides keep rejecting.
🔎 Ground signal
Local Sudanese commentary frames eastern Sudan's unrest as rooted in economic collapse and resource competition rather than mere tribalism, and openly accuses external actors (notably Egypt) of prolonging the war—signaling deep local skepticism that the Quintet talks will yield a genuine ceasefire while either side believes it can win militarily.