Sudanese Political and Diplomatic Push Intensifies Amid War

Cairo / Addis Ababa / El Fashaga / Port Sudan — Maj Gen. Kamal Ismail, head of the Sudanese Alliance Party, told Radio Dabanga yesterday that the Cessation of War Charter (Cairo Charter), signed in Egypt’s capital of Cairo by 45 political parties, trade unions, and national figures, is a national initiative aimed at ending the conflict, not “forming a new political bloc.”

The Cairo Charter was jointly drafted by the signatories and has the backing of Sudan’s former Prime Minister and leader of…