Norway’s Special Envoy to Sudan confirms there is no new US-backed peace proposal

The head of Sudan’s armed forces has welcomed a statement by Norway’s Deputy Foreign Minister and Special Envoy to Sudan that no new US peace proposal has been presented to the Sudanese government.

Last week General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who also heads Sudan’s Transnational Sovereign Council, had denounced what he said was a new US-backed plan that would disband the army. But at a meeting with Burhan in Port Sudan on Thursday,…