Under pressure from Khartoum, the United Nations Security Council closed the UN mission in Sudan, a country devastated by civil war (UNITAMS). 14 of the 15 member states of the Security Council voted yesterday in New York to end the mission created in 2020; Russia abstained.
The British representative to the UN, James Kariuki, regretted the end of the mission. “The need for the UN and the international community to support the people of Sudan has not diminished,” he said.
In mid-November, the Sudanese leadership officially called for an end to the mission, which also documents human rights violations in Sudan. In June, Khartoum had already declared the then head of UNITAMS, Volker Perthes, persona non grata. The German political scientist resigned from his position in September.
In North Africa’s state of crisis, the troops of military ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia of his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, have been involved in a bloody struggle for power since mid-April. . It is estimated that more than 10,000 people were killed and, according to the UN, more than six million people are on the run.