SAR Welcomes Renewed International Pressure to End Sudan’s War and Calls for Action Against Those Fueling the Conflict.

The Sudanese Alliance for Rights (SAR) welcomes the United States’ renewed call for an immediate humanitarian truce in Sudan without preconditions, an inclusive political dialogue leading to civilian government, and its stated commitment to “raise the cost of continued conflict on all belligerents and the networks which fuel the conflict.”

The latest U.S. position comes after months of diplomatic efforts to secure a humanitarian truce and a pathway towards a durable cessation of hostilities. Yet the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have continued to fight, with the U.S. State Department stating on 22 September that neither side had made a serious commitment to an immediate truce and that both had intensified combat operations and drone strikes that kill civilians.

For SAR, the significance of the latest U.S. position lies not only in its renewed call for a truce, but in its recognition that continued warfare must carry consequences, including for the wider networks that make the war possible.

After more than three years of devastating conflict, repeated appeals for peace cannot continue to be met with military escalation, attacks against civilians and renewed flows of weapons and military support.

SAR recognises that the United States’ latest position represents a harder line following months of efforts to secure an agreement between the warring parties.

The United States has nevertheless maintained that a humanitarian truce and political dialogue remain the pathway towards a durable peace. This position was reinforced on 23 September when the Chairperson of the African Union Commission co-chaired, with the United States, the first joint meeting of the Quad and Quintet on Sudan.

The AU called for an immediate humanitarian truce and cessation of hostilities as a pathway to a durable ceasefire, reiterated that there is no military solution to the conflict, and called for an inclusive, Sudanese-owned and Sudanese-led political process. It also called for an end to external military support fuelling the war.

SAR welcomes this convergence around a clear principle: pressure and diplomacy must work together.

The objective must be to stop the fighting, protect civilians, enable humanitarian access and create the conditions for a credible political process, while ensuring that those who obstruct these efforts face meaningful consequences.

The renewed U.S. position also comes amid increasingly strong warnings within the UN Security Council about the role of external support in sustaining Sudan’s conflict.

During the Security Council’s 23 September discussion, members raised concerns about the continued flow of weapons, foreign military support and fighters, the increasing use of drones, and the growing regionalisation of the conflict. Council members also highlighted the role of Sudan’s conflict economy, including the illicit exploitation and trade of gold, in financing the acquisition and movement of weapons and drones.

The discussion included calls to consider expanding the existing arms embargo on Darfur to the whole of Sudan, alongside stronger monitoring and accountability for violations of the sanctions regime. The United States subsequently outlined a proposal to expand the embargo nationwide, clarify that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), systems and related technologies fall within its scope, increase the capacity of the UN Panel of Experts, and strengthen cooperation with other regional sanctions-monitoring mechanisms.

Every weapon that reaches Sudan makes peace harder to achieve and places civilians at greater risk.

The increasing use of drones is particularly alarming. UN discussions have highlighted their deployment against civilians, civilian infrastructure and humanitarian routes, while their remote operation and limited identifiers can complicate efforts to establish responsibility and enforce existing sanctions.

The international response must therefore look beyond the battlefield. It must address the financial, commercial, logistical and military networks that enable the continued flow of weapons and resources into the conflict.

SAR calls on both the SAF and RSF to immediately accept and implement the proposed humanitarian truce without preconditions.

More than three years of war have demonstrated that military escalation cannot deliver a sustainable solution. Civilians continue to be killed and injured, displaced from their homes and deprived of access to food, healthcare, education and other essential services.

SAR urges both parties to end attacks against civilians and civilian infrastructure, facilitate safe, rapid and unhindered humanitarian access throughout Sudan, comply fully with international humanitarian and human rights law, commit to a verifiable and sustained cessation of hostilities, and engage in an inclusive political process that places Sudanese civilians at the centre of determining the country’s future.

Neither the SAF nor the RSF should mistake military gains for a pathway to legitimate governance.

The Sudanese people should not be forced to choose their political future through the barrel of a gun. A humanitarian truce must therefore be more than a temporary pause before another round of fighting. It must create space for a sustained cessation of hostilities and an inclusive political process.

SAR strongly welcomes the U.S. commitment to raise the cost of continued conflict for all belligerents and the networks that fuel the conflict.

This commitment must now translate into concrete action.

The international community must investigate and disrupt the networks through which weapons, military technology, financing, logistical assistance and other resources reach the parties to the conflict.

SAR therefore calls for the expansion of the UN arms embargo to the entire territory of Sudan, including effective coverage of UAVs, drones, related systems, technologies and relevant components. Monitoring and investigation of arms transfers and sanctions violations must be strengthened, alongside the capacity of the UN Panel of Experts to investigate the networks sustaining the conflict.

Individuals and entities involved in supplying, financing or facilitating the war must be identified and subjected to targeted measures. Regional and international sanctions-monitoring mechanisms must work together to investigate violations, while the financial networks and conflict economies that enable the acquisition of weapons and military technology must receive greater scrutiny.

Those who supply weapons, finance armed operations, facilitate military logistics or otherwise enable the continuation of the war must also face scrutiny and consequences.

SAR notes the Sudanese government’s rejection of the U.S. statement questioning the legitimacy of the SAF, RSF and their respective leaders. Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that any peace initiative must respect Sudan’s sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and national institutions, while identifying external interference as a cause of the continuation of the war.

SAR underscores that respect for Sudan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity must go hand in hand with the protection of civilians, respect for international law and accountability for violations.

The pursuit of peace must not become a contest over which armed actor is able to impose its authority through military force.

The AU’s 23 September position is instructive in this regard: it called simultaneously for a humanitarian truce, cessation of hostilities and an inclusive Sudanese-owned and Sudanese-led political process, while stressing the need to preserve Sudan’s unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity.

SAR supports such an approach.

The Sudanese people have heard repeated expressions of international concern while the war has continued.

They now need action.

The latest developments provide an opportunity to connect the humanitarian, diplomatic, security and accountability tracks rather than pursuing them in isolation.

SAR welcomes the renewed U.S. commitment to a humanitarian truce and civilian political transition. It welcomes the growing recognition within the UN Security Council of the need to address arms flows, drone warfare and the networks sustaining the conflict. It welcomes the AU’s renewed call for a cessation of hostilities and an inclusive Sudanese-led political process.

But these commitments must now produce results.

To the SAF and RSF: accept the truce. Stop the attacks. Protect civilians.

To those supplying and financing the war: stop fuelling it.

To the international community: turn commitments into consequences.

SAR calls for an immediate humanitarian truce, a sustained cessation of hostilities, unrestricted humanitarian access, an end to external military support that fuels the conflict, accountability for violations, and an inclusive civilian-led political process.

Sudan’s future cannot be secured through military victory.

It must be secured through peace, accountability, and the right of the Sudanese people to determine their own future.

The Sudanese Alliance for Rights (SAR),

24 September 2026.