Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Minister of State, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, what recent steps his Department has taken to help secure a peace agreement in Sudan.

The UK continues to work with international partners, including The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the African Union and the UN, to bring the warring parties together and secure an end to hostilities. We welcome the mediation efforts of IGAD, including the Extraordinary Assembly of Heads of State & Government on Sudan in Djibouti where regional leaders and international representatives called for an unconditional ceasefire and a one-to-one meeting between Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) General Burhan and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader Hemedti. We also welcome the meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the end of October of a broad group of Sudanese civilian actors and stakeholders. This is as an important step towards the formation of a genuinely inclusive and representative pro-democracy civilian front.