US will take ‘big interest’ in Sudan conflict, says Foreign Secretary
US will take ‘big interest’ in Sudan conflict, says Foreign Secretary
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The US will take a “big interest” in the war in Sudan, because “failed countries become a haven of Jihadist extremist activity”, David Lammy has said. The Foreign Secretary confirmed he had had “a brief conversation” with incoming US secretary of state Marco Rubio about the conflict in the region.
Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital, Khartoum, and spread to other regions, including the vast western Darfur region. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has said there are grounds to believe both government forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) may be committing war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide in Darfur.
Liberal Democrat MP Olly Glover asked if the Foreign Secretary would ensure Sudan was on the list of priorities for President Donald Trump given his “America first agenda”. Mr Lammy said: “I listened to the secretary of state, Rubio’s first press conference, and he talked about wanting prosperity for the United States, wanting, of course, security for the United States, and wanting safety for the United States.
“And the truth is, the tremendous problems that we’re seeing in the Horn of Africa, the Sahel and Sudan, are deeply worrying, not just for us here in Europe, but also for the United States, because failed countries become a haven of Jihadist extremist activity that washes back up on our shores, that is the truth of it.
