Washington and Riyadh announced last Thursday that the negotiations on extending the short-term ceasefire broke off after the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces repeatedly violated the truce. The five-day ceasefire expired on Saturday.
The peace facilitators said that the talks on a new ceasefire would resume once the warring parties demonstrate meaningful commitment to the negotiating process and take unspecified "confidence-building measures" that they had communicated to the mediators.
Fighting broke out in Sudan in mid-April after the Sudanese army accused the paramilitary of attacking its bases. The United Nations estimates that hundreds have been killed and over 1.6 million displaced by continuing violence.