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Sudan suspends contacts with IGAD mediating group: Foreign Ministry

The war in Sudan has killed more than 13,000 people, according to a conservative estimate by the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project [File: Zohra Bensemra/Reuters]

Sudan has suspended its involvement in mediation efforts with an east African regional bloc that has sought to broker talks between the country’s warring parties.

The Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group have been fighting for nine months in a brutal war that has displaced more than 7 million people and left nearly half of Sudan’s 49 million people requiring aid.

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