Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil Idris will lead his country’s delegation to the UN General Assembly, where he plans to urgently appeal to the international community to break the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) siege on the city of El Fasher.
The change in plans, which sees Idris attending instead of the country’s sovereign Council Head, underscores the critical priority of the crisis.
The Prime Minister is scheduled to deliver Sudan’s main address and hold high-level meetings to spotlight the blockade and mobilize global action, directly engaging with the UN Secretary-General to use his “moral authority” to end the suffering.
The city of El Fasher has been under a brutal siege since April 2024, with residents facing severe shortages of food, medicine, and aid, forcing many to eat animal fodder to survive. Idris’s appeal follows a recent RSF shelling of a mosque that killed 75 people, with victims being buried in plastic bags due to a lack of proper shrouds. The PM condemned the “international silence” on the atrocities, which include mass killings and the destruction of essential infrastructure, and pledged that his government would do everything in its power to break the siege soon.