Sudan’s ministry of foreign affairs said on Tuesday it regretted what it called the Kenyan government’s “disregard for its obligations” under international law for hosting a meeting of political groups aligned with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Nairobi on February 18.
Participants in the meeting said their aim was to discuss an agreement on the formation of a parallel government in Sudanese areas controlled by the RSF.
But Sudan’s foreign ministry said the move “promotes the dismembering of African states, violates their sovereignty and interferes in their internal affairs”.
“This is, therefore, a clear breach of the UN Charter, the Constitutive Act of the African Union, and the established principles of the contemporary international order,” the ministry said in a statement.
“Furthermore, hosting leaders of the terrorist RSF militia and allowing them to conduct political and propaganda activities—while they continue to perpetrate genocide, massacre civilians on an ethnic basis, attack IDP camps, and commit acts of rape—constitutes an endorsement of and complicity in these heinous crimes,” the ministry added.
It said “this action by the Kenyan government not only violates the principles of good neighborliness but also contravenes the pledges Kenya has made at the highest levels not to allow hostile activities against Sudan to be carried out on its soil”.
“It is, therefore, tantamount to an act of hostility against the entire Sudanese people.” it added.
The ministry said the “stunt” by the pro-RSF groups “will have no impact on the ground as the Sudanese Armed Forces, along with joint and supporting forces—backed by the Sudanese people—remain resolute in their determination to liberate every inch of Sudanese territory desecrated by the terrorist militia and its foreign mercenaries”.
The ministry called on “the international community to condemn this hostile act by the Kenyan government” and vowed to “take all necessary measures to redress the balance”.
Kenya did not immediately and publicly respond to the statement.
