; Whereas, on December 5, 2022, the Sudanese military announced a transition framework with a group of FFC leaders and some other Sudanese civilian leaders, and in such agreement promised to relinquish control of the government to civilian leaders; Whereas, in March 2023, the signatories of the Framework Political Agreement announced that they would sign a final agreement to return the Sudanese Government to civilian rule on April 1, 2023, and form a new transitional government, but the April 1 deadline passed without agreement as security sector reform negotiations stalled as the timeline and manner for integrating the RSF into the SAF raised tensions between the security forces; Whereas, on Saturday, April 15, 2023, fighting broke out in Sudan between the SAF under the leadership of General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary RSF under the leadership of General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and has escalated into a deadly nationwide conflict; Whereas this conflict has spread from the Sudanese capital of Khartoum to the Darfur region and other parts of Sudan, leading to thousands of civilians killed and injured, and a massive displacement and humanitarian crisis in East Africa; Whereas this conflict has severely disrupted the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the people of Sudan, where one-third of all people, nearly 16,000,000, required humanitarian assistance prior to the conflict and 24,700,000, half of the population, are now in need of humanitarian assistance; Whereas more than 2,700,000 people have been displaced since the conflict began, including over 2,100,000 people displaced internally and over 400,000 who have crossed into neighboring countries including Chad, Egypt, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and the Central African Republic; Whereas, during this conflict, combatants have used explosive weapons in populated areas, including tanks, artillery, rockets, and air-delivered munitions, that frequently result in indiscriminate attacks in violation of international humanitarian law