Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, urged the leader of Sudan’s paramilitary militia Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, to find a point of agreement with the actors involved in the civil war in Sudan to bring peace to the country.
The statement came during a telephone conversation in which Dbeibeh invited the Sudanese general to visit Libya.
The war in Sudan broke out last April due to disputes over the powers of the army and the RSF as part of an internationally supported plan for a political transition towards a civil government and elections.
A key issue has been the disruptive role played behind the scenes by Islamist supporters and former members of the deposed president Omar al Bashir’s regime in supporting the army chief’s positions.
The fighting has destroyed parts of Sudan, including the capital Khartoum, and killed more than 13,000 people, the United Nations estimates. The RSF currently has control of most of Khartoum and western Sudan and has recently made rapid military progress, pushing further east from its strongholds in Darfur to attack the town of Babanusa in western Kordofan state.