{"id":127086,"date":"2025-12-20T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/us-pushes-for-ceasefire-in-sudans-civil-war\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T13:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:12:36","slug":"us-pushes-for-ceasefire-in-sudans-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/us-pushes-for-ceasefire-in-sudans-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"US pushes for ceasefire in Sudan\u2019s civil war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, Dec 20 \u2013 The United States is pressing for an immediate humanitarian truce in Sudan as fighting intensifies across the vast strategic Kordofan region, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio warning that the relentless violence is \u201chorrifying\u201d and all those involved will face lasting condemnation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a year-end news conference on Friday, Rubio said the fighting in Sudan needed to stop, adding that the new year was a \u201cgreat opportunity for both sides to agree to that\u201d and allow desperately needed aid to reach millions trapped by the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>His remarks came as violence in Kordofan\u00a0has killed at least 100 civilians since early December and displaced more than 50,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s happening there is horrifying, it\u2019s atrocious,\u201d Rubio said, adding that \u201cone day the story of what\u2019s actually happened there is going to be known, and everyone involved is going to look bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Washington has intensified\u00a0diplomatic efforts\u00a0following a meeting between President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in late November, with US special envoy Massad Boulos recently returning from talks with Egyptian, Saudi Arabian and United Arab Emirates officials.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, Dec 20 \u2013 The United States is pressing for an immediate humanitarian truce in Sudan as fighting intensifies across the vast strategic Kordofan region, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio warning that the relentless violence is \u201chorrifying\u201d and all those involved will face lasting condemnation. Speaking at a year-end news conference on Friday, Rubio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}