Sudan War | UN hosts consultative forum to try end hostilities

International mediators have gathered at a United Nations-backed consultative forum in Geneva, Switzerland, seeking a coordinated push to end Sudan's war, as drone attacks continued to kill civilians. Nearly two dozen countries took part, amid U.N. demands for greater pressure on the warring parties, and those supplying weapons. Neither the Sudanese government, nor the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attended the forum, which brings mediators together to coordinate peace efforts. Sherwin Bryce-Pease reports that the meeting comes a day after the UN condemned deadly drone attacks on a market and fuel depot in the disputed Abyei region, with (Source: SABC News | Region: Khartoum, Sudan)