Neelam Rahim | neelam@radioislam.co.za

2-minute read
11 May 2023 | 15:35 CAT

Photo credit: Al Jazeera

Air raids again shook Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Monday. At the same time, the latest truce talks in Jeddah yielded no progress, and a Saudi diplomat said both sides consider themselves “capable of winning the battle”.

Advocate Sipho Mantula speaks to Radio Islam International about Sudan’s fighting reaching its 25th day. There have been attempted truces, but they have not been held. Adv Mantula said the deep crisis in Sudan is the deficit of African Democracy.

“It is found more of a militarisation that has existed since 1956, dating the crisis back to the origin of Sudan,” he says.

The crisis in Sudan cannot be examined in the context and the broader history of the country that has brought it to this point. Foreign interventions and personnel recruited, a window has been ordered for South Africans to be evacuated.

According to Adv Mantula, the roles of South Africans should be seen within the context that South Africa has mediated before in the conflict of North and South Sudan, which is now an internal conflict.

“The war in Sudan exposes how other African nationals are trapped in Khartoum, the city where power resides,” he added.

Meanwhile, There has yet to be any word on the progress of the talks, which began on Saturday between the army and the RSF in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah.

Listen to the full interview with Mufti Yusuf Moosagie on Your World Today.