US calls for stopping supply of arms to Sudan’s warring parties

Security forces patrol the city of Gedaref in eastern Sudan. Pic/AFP

The United States on Monday implored all countries supplying weapons to Sudan's warring parties to halt arms sales, warning that history in the vast western Darfur region where there was a genocide 20 years ago "is repeating itself".

US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told reporters after an emergency closed meeting of the U.N. Security Council that El Fasher, the only capital in Darfur not held by paramilitary forces, is "on the precipice of a large-scale massacre."

She urged all countries to raise the threat that ¿a crisis of epic proportions is brewing." Britain's deputy ambassador James Kariuki echoed her appeal saying: "The last thing Sudan needs is a further escalation on top of this conflict that's been going on for a whole year".

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