Sudan asks the international community to leave the “empty” messages and promote “a realistic” peace process

The Sudanese authorities have called on the international community to promote “a realistic process” to achieve the end of the open war in April 2023 with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), before also requesting that it abandon the “empty” statements condemning the actions of the militiamen, whom it has accused of perpetrating “one genocide after another” in the African country.

Amgad Fareid Eltayeb Idris, advisor for Political and Diplomatic Affairs to the president of the Sovereign Transitional Council and head of the Army, Abdel Fattá al Burhan, has highlighted the need for “a realistic process to end the war”, which “should focus on how to peacefully dismantle the RSF.”

“We prefer that this war end by peaceful means, instead of continuing the fight. This fight is damaging the economy, it is damaging the population, it is damaging everything,” he said in an interview with Europa Press at the headquarters of the Sudanese Embassy in Madrid.

“The international community must mediate the appropriate process to peacefully dismantle the RSF, without fueling its ambitions, instead of fueling its illusions of power,” he explained. “If they really want and seek peace and stability in Sudan, they must recognize that. More than three years have passed, it is time to see the truth,” he said.

Thus, he pointed out that “for any process to be successful, it needs a clear starting point and end point.” “We can all agree that the starting point is right now, this situation, which is very serious. But, logically, a peaceful future in Sudan should not include a fascist paramilitary organization as part of its project,” Idris stressed.

Al Burhan’s advisor has therefore criticized the lack of “real political will” and “realistic means” to address the situation and has argued that, given this, the countries of the international community “focus on other issues, on political complexities and on democratization”, instead of undertaking a peace process.

“The Sudanese people need peace, stability, security, humanitarian aid, food, basic services, education and health right now, before the polls,” he stressed, before delving into the fact that the international community has “conclusive evidence” about the responsibility of the RSF in numerous atrocities, which in his opinion makes the inaction against the group even more inexplicable.

In this sense, he has given as an example of this situation that El Obeid is going through, in the Kordofan region (center), in the face of alerts about a possible offensive by the RSF – led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, popularly known as ‘Hemedti’ – that could lead to massacres similar to those experienced in 2025 in El Fasher, branded as genocide.

Idris has criticized that the international community limits itself to issuing statements and recalled that “they are the same statements” as those published before the fall of El Fasher. “The RSF has committed genocide after genocide: in El Fasher, Geneina, Khartoum, Gezira, among others,” he denounced.

“The international community continues to be reluctant to do anything more than issue statements of alarm or concern. But these words do not save people,” he lamented. “If the international community wants to act correctly, it must be honest in its assessment (…) and support the Sudanese Government in defending its people against these atrocities and crimes,” he noted.

On the other hand, he has acknowledged that there is “fear” of the “indescribable atrocities” committed by the RSF in the areas under their control. “You can see the evidence of their fascism in everything they do. And, of course, we fear fascism because we cannot coexist with it. We saw it in Spain, we saw it in Europe, we saw it throughout world history,” he noted.

A “FASCIST MACHINERY”

In this sense, he lamented that “many political forces and many voices in the circles of the international community try to present this as another war in an endless series of wars in Sudan, but this is not true”, before arguing that “the nature of this war is different because the RSF is a violent mechanism, a fascist machinery created by the old regime to protect itself.”

Idris has thus made reference to the fact that the germ of the current RSF are the ‘Janyauid’ militias, of Arab majority and created during the regime of Omar Hasan al Bashir to fight alongside government forces during the war in Darfur at the beginning of the century, where they were also accused of genocide, facts for which the former president himself is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC).

In this way, it was said that the RSF “does not have a political program, nor an ideology.” “They do not even pretend to have political demands. They seek looting, they govern through terror, they practice sexual slavery, sexual violence, genocide, ethnic supremacy, and a long etcetera,” he noted.

“All this, at the service of a foreign agenda and around a man they venerate. They call him the prince,” he said, in reference to ‘Hemedti’, who starred in a fragile entente with Al Burhan since the fall of Al Bashir in 2019 after a wave of anti-government protests until the outbreak of war in the African country on April 15, 2023.

In this sense, he has criticized that the international community “equates those who defend the people with those who murder them.” “That is our fear: to have been abandoned to this misinformation, to have been victims of the complicity of powerful actors in the region and in the world, and to be left alone,” he acknowledged.

“Words will not protect the Sudanese people. If the world is sincere in its commitment to International Law, it must back its words with actions,” he claimed, before reiterating that the RSF uses “all types of terrorist attacks” in its offensives against civilian centers in Sudan.

“A FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL”

Despite this, he has praised the recent advances of government troops in Blue Nile and has reiterated that the military “will continue to do their duty.” “They are not fighting alone. The Sudanese people are uniting, volunteering to fight alongside the Army against the atrocities and crimes of the RSF. We will continue fighting for our survival and we hope to win,” he argued.

“We have already won before,” he highlighted, referring to the recapture of the capital, Khartoum, in March 2025, after being in the hands of the RSF since the outbreak of the conflict, as well as the taking of Gezira shortly before and other “many areas” taken from the paramilitaries, whom he blames for the deep humanitarian crisis in the country.

“The RSF created the largest humanitarian crisis (…) and caused the largest displacement crisis,” said Idris, who has accused the group of “committing atrocities at unprecedented levels”, including “the use of rape and sexual violence to disintegrate society and community” during its attacks in Gezira state.

Along these lines, he has accused the RSF of “resorting to ethnic cleansing in Geneina and later in El Fasher, acts that the international community and the United Nations described as genocide”, while recognizing that the economic crisis that aggravates the humanitarian situation is equally driven by war.

“The international community is not helping either, pressuring NGOs not to cooperate with the Government, saying that both parties are bad and other similar speeches,” he said. “This is neither a principle nor neutrality, it is complicity and harms the Sudanese people more than anyone else,” he concluded.