The leader of his army SudanGeneral Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, agreed in principle today to declare a seven-day ceasefire starting Thursday, May 4, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Sudan.

South Sudan, which had offered to mediate, said in a statement that its president, Salva Kiir, stressed the importance of agreeing a longer-term ceasefire and appointing envoys for the peace talks. The two warring sides agreed to appoint envoys.

It is unknown whether this seven-day ceasefire (May 4-11) will be observed as previous ceasefire agreements have been flagrantly violated.

The war has forced more than 100,000 people to flee to neighboring countries and the ongoing conflict is causing a humanitarian crisis, the UN said earlier. The conflict could lead to a wider disaster as Sudan’s poor neighbors are forced to cope with refugee flows while fighting blocks food distribution in that country, two-thirds of whose people already rely on some form of foreign aid to survive. survive.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Cairo could lend its support to opening a dialogue between the two warring sides but at the same time was “careful not to interfere in internal affairs”.

“The whole region could be affected,” the Egyptian president said in an interview with a Japanese newspaper.