Khartoum – Sudan Now | April 15, 2026
The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a strongly worded statement today expressing its full condemnation of the Berlin Conference, describing it as reflecting a “colonial tutelage approach” exercised by certain Western countries to impose their agenda on independent states.
The statement stressed that Khartoum would not accept that countries and organizations convene to decide on Sudan’s affairs while bypassing its government. It rejected what it described as the “pretext of neutrality” invoked by the organizers to justify excluding the Sudanese government, calling it a “dangerous precedent in international relations.”
The Foreign Ministry also lashed out at the notion of parity between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF, arguing that it undermines the foundations of regional and international security, encourages armed groups to escalate their activities, and provides foreign powers with a pretext to disregard state sovereignty.
The statement said that the conference’s real challenge does not lie in the issue of participation or boycott, but in the “fundamentally flawed central premise” from which it defines the war and formulates visions for ending it. It stressed that such characterizations “do not produce peace or stability, but rather lead to further polarization.”
The statement described the Berlin Conference as a continuation of the Paris and London conferences, following the “same flawed approach,” stressing that this series of conferences has done nothing but “reward militias and their supporters and provide them with a platform.”
In contrast, the Sudanese government affirmed its openness to serious peace initiatives carried out in consultation and coordination with it, referring to the peace initiative presented by the Prime Minister before the UN Security Council in December 2025. It stated that any initiative that does not respect Sudan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity would be “rejected and deemed unacceptable.”
The statement came on the same day the third Berlin Conference on Sudan convened, hosted on April 15, 2026, by Germany, the African Union, the European Union, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Khartoum had already expressed its rejection of the conference since its announcement in January and delivered an official memorandum to the German Foreign Ministry on April 10 through its ambassador in Berlin, outlining its position of refusal.
The Berlin Conference comes within a series of international conferences on Sudan that followed the outbreak of war in April 2023, preceded by the Paris 2024 and London 2025 conferences, both of which failed to reach a ceasefire or a political settlement.
