Reuters. A U.S. diplomatic convoy came under fire in Sudan, American Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday (April 18).
Speaking during a news conference at the end of the G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Karuizawa, Japan, Blinken told reporters that "all of our people are safe and unharmed" in Monday's (April 17) incident.
He said he spoke in separate phone conversations earlier on Tuesday to General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces, and General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, head of the RSF, and said that any danger posed to American diplomats was unacceptable.
Blinken said that had also urged Burhan and Hemedti to agree to a 24-hour ceasefire "to allow Sudanese to safely reunite with their families and to obtain desperately needed relief supplies."
Fighting between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed at least 185 people and injured more than 1,8000 amid airstrikes and fighting in Khartoum and strife across Sudan, according to U.N. envoy Volker Perthes. Their power struggle has derailed a shift to civilian rule and raised fears of a wider conflict.
