Envoys Visit Sudan while Warnings of Genocide Ignored

Al-Muhaqqiq – Mariam Abasher

The UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy, Ramtane Lamamra, has concluded a three-day visit to Port Sudan. Meanwhile the British government’s Special Envoy also arrived in Port Sudan and concluded a similar visit, during which he met with Sudanese government officials to discuss ways to stop the war and find a solution to the humanitarian crisis caused by the rebel militia’s conduct.

According to a high-ranking diplomatic source who spoke to sudanhorizon, Guterres’s envoy met with Sudanese officials to “discuss the crisis in Sudan,” as do other envoys visiting Sudan and meeting with government representatives. The source denied that the government had received an invitation from Lamamra to hold talks in Geneva, as some news reports havve suggested.

A diplomatic source told Sudanhorizon that British Special Envoy Richard Crowder held meetings with officials regarding the current crisis in Sudan stemming from the war, the human rights situation, the dire humanitarian conditions resulting from the conflict, and how to find a solution.

In a related development, the British newspaper The Guardian published a report indicating that the British Foreign Office ignored warnings of genocide in Darfur issued by analysts working with them since the beginning of the war, both before and after the massacre in El Geneina. The newspaper stated that British Foreign Office officials altered reports issued by analysts if they included warnings of genocide, replacing them with more subtle language.

The newspaper quoted one of these analysts as saying that he believed the reason for this was to avoid embarrassing the UAE, given that evidence had pointed to its involvement in the war from the outset. The analyst added that the British Foreign Office also ignored warnings of a potential war in Sudan in February and March 2023. Testimonies from Yale University experts, widely circulated, revealed that the experts had informed the US administration and Security Council members, including Britain (the penholder), from the very beginning of the siege of El Fasher, of the high probability of a genocide similar to what occurred in El Geneina, but none heeded these warnings.

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