50 activists hand over memo to African Union requesting cease fire

Khartoum-The Sudanese civil society forces sent a message to the meetings of the African Union Peace and Security Council in Addis Ababa on Monday on humanitarian and political crisis in Sudan.

The memorandum, which was handed over to the African Union mediator, Thabo Mbeki, urged the African Union Commission, the African Peace and Security Council and the high-level African mechanism to give priority to the humanitarian crises in Sudan.

The memorandum stressed the necessity of issuing special and separate decision on the humanitarian situations to start with the cessation of hostilities and aerial bombardment for humanitarian purposes, and to find a final solution to the humanitarian crises in war and in post-dispute areas.

The memorandum pointed out that the talks between the Sudanese government and the SPLM-North have come to stalemate due to the differences of the stances of the two sides.

The memo urged the African Union Commission, the African peace and Security Council and the high-level African mechanism to continue in exercising maximum pressures to facilitate realization of a just, comprehensive and historical political settlement to stop war and continued violence and handle deep government crises.

Activist and member of the democratic first group, Moneim Al-Jack, who is also among the 50 signatory prominent civil society leaders to the memorandum, urged the democratic powers, civil society and activists to sign on the message, and to mobilize support for its objective purposes to stop the humanitarian suffering of millions of Sudanese people and to reach a just, comprehensive and historical political settlement to end war and violence.