The Sudanese government is now accusing Kenya of hostility after it allowed the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to host its activities at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC).
Sudan said in a statement that Kenya has also violated the principles of good neighbourliness by doing this.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs insisted that this is also against Kenya's pledges to not allow hostility against Sudan in its territory.
“Hosting leaders of the terrorist RSF militia and allowing them to conduct political and propaganda activities constitutes an endorsement of and complicity in these heinous crimes," Sudan said.
“Equally, this action by the Kenyan government not only violates the principles of good neighbourliness 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."
However, the Kenyan government insisted that Kenya is not supporting RFS.
Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Korir Sing’oei told the Star on Tuesday that, “quite to the contrary, Kenya is a supporter of a negotiated settlement to the dispute and has said as much time without number.
“That one side to the conflict is laying down her political demands in no way suggests that the government favours these demands,” he said.
However, Sudan said the decision by Kenya is regrettable and that it disregards
obligations under international law, the Charter of the United Nations, the
Constitutive Act of the African Union, and the Convention on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
The ministry, however, said the political agreement signed in Nairobi to form a parallel government by the RSF will have no effect in Sudan.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirms that this propaganda stunt 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 MFA said.
The Sudanese government further called on the international community to condemn the ‘hostile act by the Kenyan government’.
The RSF, one of the warring factions accused of genocide in the protracted Sudan war, met at KICC on Tuesday to plan for the launch of what it termed a “Government of Peace and Unity”.
The event, which was postponed from Monday, will continue on Wednesday, after which the signing of the Charter for the Government of Peace and Unity will be signed with “broad popular participation and a large diplomatic and international presence”.
The conflict in Sudan has killed tens of thousands of people and driven millions from their homes.
