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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk expressed alarm Friday over reports of summary executions in Khartoum North, Sudan, where fighters allied with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have allegedly killed civilians since regaining control of the area. The UN Human Rights Office verified at least 18 deaths, including one woman, in seven separate [...]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk sounded an urgent alarm on Friday over the escalating ethnic violence in Sudan. Reports of ethnically motivated attacks, hate speech, and violence against civilians have become increasingly common in the ongoing conflict that has already devastated the lives of millions. Turk warned, “Retaliatory attacks — of shocking [...]

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the leader of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) on Thursday, emphasizing its commitment to end the current military conflict in Sudan. OFAC sanctioned SAF commander Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, stating that the leader is “choosing war over good-faith negotiation and de-escalation.” OFAC also [...]

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday declared that Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias have committed genocide during the country’s ongoing civil war. This would mark the second genocide Sudan has seen in less than three decades, following the Darfur genocide of the early 2000s. Blinken’s statement outlined atrocities perpetrated by [...]

The UN Security Council committee on Friday sanctioned two Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leaders, Osman Mohamed Hamed and Abdulrahman Juma Barakallah, for their actions, including committing acts of violence, widespread human rights violations, and attacks on civilians that threaten the security, peace, and stability of Sudan. The imposed sanctions include asset freezes and international travel [...]

At least 25 people were reportedly killed and dozens wounded in an attack by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Saturday on the city of El-Fasher in western Darfur, local pro-democracy activists El-Fasher Resistance Committees shared on Facebook.  In their post, the Resistance Committees accused the militia of “indiscriminately shelling the city’s neighborhoods with heavy artillery.” [...]

Hamas responded to a US-backed ceasefire proposal for Gaza, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan told Al-Mayadeen TV on Tuesday. While expressing support for the broad outlines of the plan, the Palestinian group submitted “a few remarks” aimed at aligning the proposal with its positions. The US plan, presented by President Joe Biden last month, envisions a [...]

The UN human rights chief expressed Friday serious concerns regarding increasing violence near the Sudanese city of El-Fasher. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk recently held discussions with commanders from both sides of the conflict, stressing the potential for a humanitarian catastrophe in the event of an attack on the city. Toby Harward, [...]

A group of four US congressmen called on Friday for President Joe Biden to sanction Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its leader, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (commonly known as Hemedti), for gross violations of human rights. Senators Benjamin Cardin and James Risch of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, together with Representatives Michael McCaul and [...]

The war in Sudan that broke out in April between the country’s armed forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has already had a devastating impact. Thousands have been killed. Millions have been displaced. And that’s to say nothing of the massive destruction of buildings and infrastructure. In parallel with the battles on the [...]