What Is Blocking Progress on Ending Sudan’s War?

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00:00And the U.S., Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt, the Quad, as they know,

00:05have been working on ways to end the civil war in Sudan.

00:10But Dr. Eli, what are the major sticking points where they can't seem to move forward?

00:16There's just too much complexity in this situation.

00:19First, the four need to agree on what is their vision for the future of Sudan.

00:24They still don't see eye to eye on every aspect of this conflict.

00:29As I said before, some of them are close to this party of the conflict or to the other.

00:35So we don't have a clear roadmap fully supported by all four countries that are mediating

00:40and that shows a clear way forward.

00:43So this is the first hurdle.

00:45The second hurdle is once we have this agreement or this roadmap,

00:52will we guarantee the support and the enforcement by both parties of this temporary transition plan

00:58or whatever you want to call it?

00:59That's the second challenge.

01:01Will they agree on it?

01:02Will they implement it?

01:04Who will enforce this, practically speaking?

01:06And third, is any of these countries willing to send boots on the ground

01:10to actually act as a peace force or as an enforcement mechanism to force this transition on both parties

01:17and actually act as a guarantor of this agreement?

01:21This is also nowhere to be seen by any of the four or any other power.

01:26If we go towards the peacekeeping force, be it an African peacekeeping force or a UN peacekeeping force,

01:32peacekeeping force is not enough in the case of Sudan.

01:34We need a strong enforcement capable under Chapter 7 of the UN Security Council

01:40that allows the UN forces or the multinational forces to actually enforce and use force

01:45to implement a specific peace process.

01:49So there's the international agreement, there's the agreement of the internal parts,

01:53there's the practicality of it, and then there's the enforcement mechanism.

01:57All of these are sticking point.

01:58We're still, unfortunately, a very long way to go.

02:01And everybody was distracted by what's happening in Gaza, very rightfully so.

02:06But then this is a clear genocide, a clear massacre happening just a few hundred kilometers away.

02:12We need to give it as much attention as we gave Gaza

02:16and actually bring all the efforts of the international community to stop what's happening

02:21because it is really unacceptable to any human being,

02:24let alone to the international community and to the world altogether.