{"id":970,"date":"2025-12-05T17:33:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/?p=970"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:35:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:35:16","slug":"trump-envoy-deniesbias-as-he-pushes-forsudan-peace-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/05\/trump-envoy-deniesbias-as-he-pushes-forsudan-peace-plan\/politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump envoy denies bias as he pushes for Sudan peace plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Massad Boulos<\/em>, Trump Envoy <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

President Donald Trump\u2019s senior Africa envoy, Massad Boulos, has rejected criticism that the US\u2019 latest proposal to end the Sudan civil war is \u201cbiased\u201d. The US, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been attempting to mediate between Sudan\u2019s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which have been fighting for more than two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, Sudan\u2019s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said the latest ceasefire proposal was unacceptable and future ones would also be one-sided as long as the UAE was involved in the negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Gulf state denies it is offering support to the RSF and on Tuesday Mr Boulos said the bias Burhan spoke of was non-existent. \u201cHe was making reference to something that does not exist, that has never been presented by us. So we have no idea what he is talking about,\u201d the AFP news agency reports Mr Boulos as saying while at a media briefing with UAE presidential adviser Anwar Gargash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a video address on Sunday, Burhan said the latest peace plan proposal was \u201cthe worst ever\u201d because it sidelines the army and \u201callows the Rapid Support Forces to remain\u201d. He accused Trump\u2019s adviser of attempting to impose conditions. \u201cWe are not advocates of war, nor do we reject peace, but no one can threaten us or impose conditions on us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe fear that Massad Boulos may become an obstacle to the peace sought by all Sudanese.\u201d The US, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and UAE – collectively known as \u201cthe Quad\u201d proposed a three-month humanitarian truce to the two sides in September. They said the agreement should be followed by a permanent ceasefire and a transition to civilian rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The army at the time rejected \u201cforeign interference\u201d which observers say is a reference to the UAE and any attempts that equated it with a \u201cracist terrorist militia that relies on foreign mercenaries\u201d. The Sudanese army has repeatedly alleged that the UAE has been supplying the RSF with weapons and foreign fighters. UN experts say accusations of such military support are credible, but the Gulf nation has denied all involvement with the RSF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mohamed Hamdan\u00a0Dagalo<\/em> Leader of RSF<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

On Monday, the RSF announced a unilateral three-month ceasefire \u201cin response to international efforts, chiefly that of His Excellency US President Donald Trump\u201d, to end the war. However, the army said Africa on Tuesday that the RSF had attacked the town of Babanusa, the army\u2019s last stronghold in West Kordofan state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier in November, Sudan\u2019s capital, Khartoum – which is held by the army – was hit by a drone attack the day after the RSF agreed to an earlier humanitarian ceasefire. The RSF\u2019s ceasefire declaration \u201cseems to be largely a political ploy\u201d, Sudanese analyst Kholood Khair told the BBC\u2019s Newsday programme. \u201cThe army has been so intransigent about the prospect of a truce and effectively it\u2019s a way of getting a political win in the eyes of the Quad, in particular the United States,\u201d Ms Khair the founder of Confluence Advisory think-tank said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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U.S. President Donald Trump <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Trump intervention Last week<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Trump said he would intervene to help end the war, which has forced 12 million people from their homes and caused what the UN has called the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis. There has been no systematic recording of the number of people killed but in May 2024, then US special envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello pointed to estimates of up to 150,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent weeks, reports of atrocities in the Sudanese city of el-Fasher have sparked international condemnation. The RSF has been accused of committing mass killings, ethnic cleansing and sexual violence after last month\u2019s seizure of the city, the last major location that remained outside of their control in the vast western region of Darfur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The paramilitary group, once an ally of the army, has repeatedly denied the abuses, though last month the militia\u2019s leader, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, declared an investigation into \u201cviolations\u201d committed by his soldiers. Both sides have been accused of war crimes during the conflict that erupted in April 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump\u2019s senior Africa envoy, Massad Boulos, has rejected criticism that the US\u2019 latest proposal to end the Sudan civil war is \u201cbiased\u201d. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/970\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}