SUDAN CONFLICT: UN CHIEF RAISES CONCERN<\/p>\n
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… says, could engulf the whole region<\/p>\n
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News Desk<\/p>\n
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The UN secretary-general warned Monday that the violence between warring parties in Sudan \u201ccould engulf the whole region and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Antonio Guterres told a meeting of the UN Security Council on multilateralism that the situation in Sudan \u201ccontinues to worsen.\u201d<\/p>\n
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At least 427 people have been killed and almost 4,000 wounded in ten days of fighting between forces loyal to two rival generals.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThe violence must stop. It risks a catastrophic conflagration within Sudan that could engulf the whole region and beyond,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Guterres added that he was \u201cin constant contact with the parties to the conflict and have called on them to de-escalate tensions and to return to the negotiating table.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe must all do everything within our power to pull Sudan back from the edge of the abyss,\u201d he said, repeating his call for a ceasefire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SUDAN CONFLICT: UN CHIEF RAISES CONCERN … says, could engulf the whole region By News Desk The UN secretary-general warned Monday that the violence between warring parties in Sudan \u201ccould engulf the whole region and beyond.\u201d Antonio Guterres told a meeting of the UN Security Council on multilateralism that the situation in Sudan \u201ccontinues to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"yoast_head":"\n