UN chief ‘hopeful’ for 7-day ceasefire to distribute aid in Sudan’s El-Fasher city – Middle East Monitor

The UN chief on Friday expressed hope that the Sudanese army forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) would agree to a seven-day humanitarian ceasefire in the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state in western Sudan, Anadolu reports.

“We have a dramatic situation in El Fasher,” said Antonio Guterres during a news conference at UN headquarters in New York, citing a recent attack on an aid convoy of UNICEF and the World Food Programme…