US ties Sudanese army leader’s UN visa to ceasefire plan

The United States is withholding a visa for Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ahead of his scheduled UN appearance in a move that Sudanese and other sources say is linked to a US-backed ceasefire proposal that Khartoum has resisted.
The dispute, first reported by Reuters, threatens to deepen tensions between Washington and Sudan’s army at a critical moment in the civil war, which the United Nations calls the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.
A senior Sudanese source said Burhan had postponed his trip to New York but had yet to receive official notice that the visa had been denied.