“Today, traumatised civilians are still trapped inside El Fasher and are being prevented from leaving,” said UN human rights chief Volker Türk in a statement released on Friday. “I fear that the abominable […]
Category: Africa
Sudan crisis: UN agencies race to aid civilians as violence engulfs El Fasher
“We are deeply alarmed by mounting reports of grave violations against civilians,” M. Haq said, citing accounts of “executions, sexual violence, humiliation, extortion and attacks” […]
Sudan war and political uncertainty block progress on Abyei peace talks
Relations between the neighbouring countries remain deeply affected by the war in Sudan, where the national army and former allies, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), have been battling for power since April 2023. Two senior UN officials briefed the Council on […]
Famine declared in two Sudanese cities cut off by war, fragile gains elsewhere
Although food security has begun to improve in areas where fighting has subsided, famine has taken hold in conflict-hit locations that have been cut off from […]
Famine tightens grip on Sudan, with civilians trapped and aid blocked
According to the latest IPC food security report, more than 21 million people across Sudan are facing high levels of acute food insecurity – the […]
Tens of thousands fleeing on foot amid atrocities in Sudan’s El Fasher
Since the powerful paramilitary group made a major incursion into the city last week, the UN human rights office has received “horrendous accounts of summary […]
Security Council LIVE: Ambassadors meet in emergency session on Sudan
As reports of mass atrocities in and around the newly-captured city of El Fasher in Darfur mark a new low in Sudan’s brutal civil war, […]
‘Blood on the sand. Blood on the hands’: UN decries world’s failure as Sudan’s El Fasher falls
Briefing ambassadors in the Security Council, the UN’s top relief official Tom Fletcher said “women and girls are being raped, people being mutilated and killed […]
Reported massacre at hospital in Sudan’s El Fasher leaves 460 dead
The World Health Organization says it’s appalled and deeply shocked by reports that 460 patients and their companions have been killed at Saudi Maternity Hospital […]
‘Horrific’ violence as thousands flee Sudan’s El Fasher
Senior UN refugee agency (UNHCR) official in Sudan, Jacqueline Wilma Parlevliet, said there had been “significant outflow out of El Fasher into Tawila” – around […]
