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WASHINGTON, April 10 (Reuters) – The United States will push for more than $100 million in additional funding to respond to the Sudanese conflict, aiming to spur an international response at this month’s donor conference on the humanitarian crisis, the United States said on Tuesday. . North Africa’s envoy said Wednesday.
Special Envoy Tom Perriello said he expected partners around the world to give greater priority to Sudan’s civil war and to see more countries participate at the donor conference in Paris on April 15.
Today marks one year since the conflict erupted after long-simmering tensions led to fierce fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
“The international community’s response has been pathetic. We are at 5% of what is needed,” Perriello said, adding that the United States had already committed more than $1 billion to humanitarian relief in the conflict.
“We’re going to make another nine-figure push on this,” he said, without elaborating.
The war has pushed millions into extreme hunger, triggered the world’s largest displacement crisis and triggered a wave of ethnically motivated murders and sexual violence in Sudan’s western Darfur region.
Perriello said the United States will continue to review actions on the ground and act as appropriate to raise costs through sanctions or other means if necessary. Since the war began, the United States has sanctioned the RSF’s deputy chief and other major companies and other entities owned by both sides.
Perriello also said peace talks were unlikely to resume on April 18, a date Washington has previously said it was eyeing.
Saudi Arabia and the United States led unsuccessful talks on a ceasefire in Jeddah last year.
“I don’t think there will be a meeting in Jeddah on the 18th,” he said, adding that the U.S. government is not waiting for formal talks to begin and that negotiations are taking place on a daily basis.
“Frankly, we would like to see negotiations start last week. But what we do know is that Saudi Arabia is committed to negotiations, negotiations that include a broader range of key players. We are hopeful that they will commit to a date.” ”
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Reporting by Daphne Psaredakis in Washington and Nafisa Eltahir in Cairo Editing by Don Durfee, Margherita Choi and Lisa Shoemaker
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