In a statement released on Tuesday night, Esmaeil Baqaei strongly denounced the violence, calling for an immediate end to hostilities and the protection of civilians.
He also warned against “certain dangerous movements” aimed at re-dividing Sudan, stressing the necessity of respecting the African country’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The fall of the Sudanese city of el-Fasher to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has resulted in mass killings by the group.
The RSF had laid siege to el-Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur in western Sudan, for more than a year and a half. Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan announced the withdrawal of his forces from their last stronghold in the wider Darfur region late on Monday, a day after the paramilitary RSF seized control of the main Sudanese army base in el-Fasher and declared victory there.
The RSF has long been accused of targeting non-Arab communities in Darfur, while aid groups and experts have previously warned of mass violence and displacement if el-Fasher fell.
The war in Sudan between the RSF and the SAF began on April 15, 2023 and has become the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with tens of thousands killed and more than 12 million people displaced. There are also fears that Sudan could once again split, more than a decade after the creation of South Sudan.
Darfur is an RSF stronghold while the SAF controls the Sudanese capital Khartoum, as well as the north and east of the country. The RSF advance comes shortly after talks last week by the Quad – a bloc of nations comprised of the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates – which laid out a roadmap aimed at ending the war in Sudan.