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What could anyone do?
I mean, that's really the million-dollar question here, because they're coming to meet, and top on the agenda would be the security situation in the country, and this is in reference to the fall of Al-Farsha.
And just next to Al-Farsha, there's the Kordofan region.
There have been reports of ongoing clashes there,
and that the RSF captured a city called Barra, which is also very critical in terms of supplying aid and life-saving assistance.
But what we're hearing is that this possibility that the issues of a possible truce that has been pushed by the Quad initiative
which involve the U.S., Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, seeking possibly to have a humanitarian truce and then followed by a possible permanent ceasefire and then a nine-month transition.
Now, that proposal had been rejected by the Sudanese military government simply because of the involvement of the UAE, and they're saying that they don't really quite have a voice, and everything has to be factored in the issues that do affect Sudan.
the Sudanese people.
So we're hearing that this is possible.
But we saw Trump's senior advisor for Africa, Mossad Boulos, saying yesterday in Egypt that he's received positive responses from both sides, the Sudanese army and the RSF.
But it looks like there's need to put international pressure on both sides because the South, the Sudanese army, has been accusing the UAE of backing the RSF.
And there are observers saying that the Sudanese army has been receiving support
from some of the countries like Egypt, Turkey, Iran and Saudi Arabia.
Just maybe thinking in terms of international pressure, maybe this will bring things to bear.
Richard Kugoy with me from Nairobi.
Next to Gaza, and after nearly two years of war, hunger and displacement, a degree of normality has returned for almost 1,500 students in Gaza City who are having lessons again in a new tented school.
Ahmad Aburyak is an English teacher from the NGO Gaza Great Minds Foundation, which organised the school's opening.
He's been talking to my colleague, Rob Young.
After a very long time without getting back to their school, now the students are coming not just to receive education.