The UK and EU have pledged to increase aid for Sudan by more than $750 million as hundreds of people protest against the London Sudan Conference.
London is hosting ministers from 20 countries in a bid to restart stalled peace talks as the conflict enters its third year.
Hundreds of people are protesting in London because the Sudanese Army and the RSF were not invited to these talks.
The conflict has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions.
London is hosting ministers from 20 countries in a bid to restart stalled peace talks as the conflict enters its third year.
Hundreds of people are protesting in London because the Sudanese Army and the RSF were not invited to these talks.
The conflict has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions.
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00Juliette, the conference here in London is being co-hosted by the UK, the African Union, the European Union, France and Germany and other countries participating include Kenya, Egypt and the UAE, United Arab Emirates.
00:14Now, controversially to the Sydney government that have criticised the UK government for holding this meeting with the UAE president and indeed we are at a protest where there are hundreds of people behind us who are supporting the Sudan government's position on that and protesting UAE's involvement.
00:32Now, that's because Sudan is saying that they were not invited and no representative from the other side, the RSF, the Rapid Support Force, were invited to these talks.
00:40The UAE, Sudan said, has been supplying the RSF with weapons during this conflict and have brought a case to the International Court of Justice in The Hague saying so.
00:51The UAE has denied this and is asking for that case to be dropped.
00:54So there is some controversy about the participants here in London today.
00:59Now, Kenya's president, Kenya's another country that we've heard from the protesters behind us, that they would rather not have been invited to this conference.
01:06Kenya invited RSF members in February to Kenya for talks.
01:11The Kenyan foreign ministry said that was simply as a mediation and that they are not taking sides on this conflict.
01:18Now, as far as the Pathway to Peace, Foreign Secretary Lammy has emphasised this conference is actually about the external actors.
01:23He said that they need to come together to bring a diplomatic end to this conference, sorry, to this war in Sudan.
01:29And the biggest obstacle is not the funding, but the biggest obstacle is finding that pathway to peace and is calling for an immediate end for the conflict in Sudan.