Attack on EU ambassador to Sudan

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Amid the fighting in Sudan, the EU ambassador in Khartoum was attacked on Monday. This was announced by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell (75).

“A few hours ago, the EU ambassador to Sudan was attacked in his own home,” Borrell wrote on Twitter.

The law constitutes a serious violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, the Spaniard continued. The security of diplomatic premises and personnel is primarily the responsibility of the Sudanese authorities and is an obligation under international law.

Ambassador was unharmed

Borrell gave no information about the type of attack or the perpetrator or perpetrators. He also left it unclear whether the ambassador had been injured or had escaped with a fright. Borrell wrote only that the attack had happened a few hours earlier. The EU is represented in the Northeast African country by the Irish diplomat Aidan O’Hara (58). Diplomatic circles said in Brussels that night that O’Hara was fine and uninjured.

Shortly before, Borrell had announced that the EU was trying to influence the warring factions in the internal power struggle given the fierce fighting in Sudan. Work is underway to convince both sides to consider a humanitarian ceasefire, he said. The citizens urgently need a ceasefire.

185 killed and 1800 injured

At least 185 people have been killed and 1,800 injured in recent fighting in Sudan, according to the United Nations. The long-simmering power struggle between the army commanded by ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of his deputy, Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, escalated over the weekend. Since then, fierce fighting has raged in the country in Northeast Africa, which has a population of about 46 million.

The fighting was caused by the planned integration of the RSF into the army; this is considered an important step in the plan to return power in the Northeast African country to a civilian government. Tensions between Sudan’s military ruler, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan (63), and his deputy, RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Daglo (48), had recently risen.

Sudan’s de facto ruler Al-Burhan has been in power since a military coup in October 2021. He ousted the government charged with leading the transition to democratic elections following the ousting of former leader Omar al-Bashir in 2019. The anti-army RSF militia evolved from the Janjaweed militia which committed atrocities against civilians in South Sudan’s Darfur region. (SDA/AFP)

Source: Blick