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UN chief renews call for Sudan's 'immediate ceasefire'

Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, speaking during a press conference in Addis Ababa on February 14, 2026. [AFP]

 The United Nations is "fully committed" to piling on pressure for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan, which has been devastated by nearly three years of civil war, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Saturday.

Since April 2023, the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been locked in a bitter struggle for control of the country.

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