Yasir Arman, the deputy head of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), detained in the wake of a deadly raid on a Sudanese protest sit-in, addresses the media in Juba, South Sudan June 10, 2019. REUTERS/Samir Bol
JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan has agreed to open humanitarian access to war-torn areas of the country for the first time in eight years as part of a new roadmap enabling suspended peace talks to resume, a rebel leader said on Monday.
“We are expecting that the humanitarian situation is going to improve in Darfur, Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile," Yasir Arman, deputy head of a coalition of rebel groups, told Reuters.
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