UN special representative Volker Perthes addresses the media in Khartoum on January 10, 2022 to annouce that the United Nations will launch talks to help Sudan resolve its escalating political crisis triggered by last year's military coup. Perthes said ahead of a scheduled meeting by the UN Security Council later this week to discuss the situation in in the northeast African country, consultations would be held with political and social actors and armed and civil society groups, but stressed that "the UN is not coming up with any project, draft or vision for a solution". (Photo by ASHRAF SHAZLY / AFP)
