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00:00 In a communique, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia said that the rapid support forces and the
00:04 Sudanese military agreed to participate in a multilateral humanitarian forum led by the
00:11 United Nations to find solutions to obstacles faced by the NGOs and humanitarian workers
00:18 in Sudan who are trying to assist civilians.
00:22 According to the communique, they also agreed to create a communication mechanism between
00:26 the two parties.
00:27 But the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia said that negotiators were disappointed because both
00:33 the rapid support forces and the Sudanese military did not agree to organize a ceasefire.
00:40 And I can tell you that among the political analysts, both from Sudan and international,
00:46 I've been able to speak to during the past weeks, nobody believed that it was possible
00:50 to reach a ceasefire.
00:52 It was even more impossible given the intensity of the fighting of the past weeks and of the
00:56 past days, especially in the Darfur region, where the rapid support forces took over several
01:01 military bases in the cities of al-Fashir, Niala, and Ertiti, or in El-Denina, the capital
01:07 of West Darfur.
01:09 In El-Denina, as soon as they took over a military base, thousands of refugees flocked
01:14 in neighboring Sudan.
01:15 And they said that the rapid support forces killed hundreds of civilians.
01:19 I've seen videos of civilians, young men, sitting on the ground being beaten by the
01:26 rapid support forces.
01:27 I've seen pictures of dozens of bodies laying in the streets wearing civilian clothes.
01:32 So it's very difficult to believe that the rapid support forces will commit to what they
01:37 say and that they're really willing to protect civilians.
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