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A US ceasefire proposal to pause Sudan's civil war could push the country towards a Libya-style partition in its current form, a top adviser to Sudan's army-led authorities told Reuters, in some of the strongest criticism by a Sudanese official of the plan so far.
The remarks come a week after Reuters reported that army leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's visa to attend the UN General Assembly in New York had been withheld because he had not yet accepted the proposal.
The proposal, put forward by US Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs Massad Boulos, would impose a 90-day ceasefire, followed by negotiations to end the war and resume the move to civilian rule.
Amjad Farid, an adviser to Burhan on political and international affairs, told Reuters that the army-led government had presented its proposed changes to the deal, chief among them an internationally monitored withdrawal of the RSF from urban areas, but the US had appeared to ignore them.
"Mr Boulos seems to be putting pressure on us to accept a de facto partitioning of the country similar to Libyan model," he told Reuters, speaking from New York where he attended the General Assembly.
"Our concern is that the approach Mr Boulos continues to advance appears to accommodate the militia’s continued existence and preserve a place for it in Sudan’s political future," he added, referring to the RSF.
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