Sudan's leader Burhan meets Kiir in Juba

The Sudan Sovereign Council says South Sudan is the best country to meditate on the conflict in Sudan.

The Sudanese Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Ali al-Sadiq made the remarks upon the arrival of the Council’s leader General Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan at Juba International Airport this morning.

General Burhan is accompanied by Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Ali al-Sadiq and General Ahmed Ibrahim Mufadel, head of the General Intelligence Authority, and other senior military officers.

Burhan was received by President Salva Kiir.

“We in Sudan feel that South Sudan is the best country to meditate the conflict in Sudan because we have been one country for so long and we know each other, we know the problems and we know our needs,”  Sudan’s Minister Ali al-Sadiq was quoted by the press in the office of President Kiir as saying.

Meanwhile, South Sudan’s Minister of Cabinet Affairs Dr. Martin Elia Lomuro said it was in the interest of South Sudan to find a solution to the crisis in Sudan.

“It is known that President Kiir is the only person who has intimacy and knowledge about Sudan and can find a solution to the Sudanese crisis,” added Dr. Lomuro.

He further said President Kiir was better placed to meditate on the problems in Sudan, and that he has a solution in his hands to resolve the conflict.

Burhan’s visit is his second trip outside Sudan since the conflict erupted in Khartoum on 15th April this year.

He was in Egypt on Tuesday last week, where he reportedly held talks with President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi in the Egyptian coastal city of el-Alamein.

Fighting broke out in April between Sudan’s army and the Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and has since then exploded into open fighting in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere.