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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appeals for immediate truce as fighting intensifies in Darfur and Kordofan regions.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan\u2019s brutal civil war, which the UN says has created the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n Guterres\u2019s appeal, made late on Friday, follows a peace initiative presented by Sudan\u2019s Prime Minister Kamil Idris to the UN Security Council on Monday, which called for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to disarm.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n The plan was rejected by the RSF as \u201cwishful thinking\u201d.<\/p>\n The war erupted in April 2023 when a power struggle broke out between the Sudanese army and the RSF paramilitary group. Since then, the conflict has displaced 9.6 million people internally and forced 4.3 million to flee to neighbouring countries, while 30.4 million Sudanese now need humanitarian assistance, according to UN figures.<\/p>\n UN Assistant Secretary-General Mohamed Khaled Khiari told the UNSC this week that fears of intensified fighting during the dry season had been confirmed.<\/p>\n \u201cEach passing day brings staggering levels of violence and destruction,\u201d he said. \u201cCivilians are enduring immense, unimaginable suffering, with no end in sight.\u201d<\/p>\n The conflict has shifted in recent weeks to Sudan\u2019s central Kordofan region, where the RSF captured the strategic Heglig oilfield on December 8. The seizure prompted South Sudanese forces to cross into Sudan to protect the infrastructure, which Khiari warned reflects \u201cthe increasingly complex nature of the conflict and its expanding regional dimensions\u201d.<\/p>\n The RSF has also launched a final push to consolidate full control over North Darfur state, attacking towns in the Dar Zaghawa region near the Chad border since December 24. The offensive threatens to close the last escape corridor for civilians fleeing the country to Chad.<\/p>\n The violence spilled across Sudan\u2019s borders on Friday when a drone attack killed two Chadian soldiers at a military camp in the border town of Tine.<\/p>\n A Chadian military intelligence officer told Reuters news agency the drone came from Sudan, though it remained unclear whether it was launched by the army or the RSF. Chad has placed its air force on high alert and warned it would \u201cexercise our right to retaliate\u201d if the strike is confirmed as deliberate.<\/p>\n Despite the intensifying conflict, the UN achieved a rare breakthrough, saying on Friday that it conducted its first assessment mission to el-Fasher since the city fell to the RSF.<\/p>\n UN Humanitarian Coordinator Denise Brown said the mission followed \u201cmonths of intense fighting, siege, and widespread violations against civilians and humanitarian workers,\u201d adding that \u201chundreds of thousands of civilians have had to flee el-Fasher and surrounding areas\u201d.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, Yale University released a report documenting systematic mass killings by the RSF in el-Fasher, with satellite imagery showing evidence of burning and the burial of human remains on a mass scale.<\/p>\n US Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned last week that the fighting was \u201chorrifying\u201d and \u201catrocious\u201d, telling a news conference that \u201cone day the story of what\u2019s actually happened there is going to be known, and everyone involved is going to look bad\u201d.<\/p>\n Rubio said he wanted the war to end before the New Year, but there is no strong indication that progress has been made.<\/p>\n Prime Minister Idris\u2019s peace plan proposed an immediate UN-monitored ceasefire and complete RSF withdrawal from the roughly 40 percent of Sudan it controls. But an adviser to RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan \u201cHemedti\u201d Dagalo dismissed the proposal as \u201ccloser to fantasy than to politics\u201d.<\/p>\n Upon returning to Port Sudan on Friday, Idris laid down a red line, saying the government would reject international peacekeeping forces because Sudan had been \u201cburned\u201d by them in the past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appeals for immediate truce as fighting intensifies in Darfur and Kordofan regions. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan\u2019s brutal civil war, which the UN says has created the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crisis. 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