UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has begun his first official visit to Sudan since November 2022, meeting families displaced by the country’s ongoing conflict. The tour comes as fighting between rival military factions continues to devastate large areas, particularly in Darfur and Kordofan, displacing millions. Speaking from…
The United Nations’ top human rights body convened a one-day special session on Friday to spotlight the mass killings at a hospital in Sudan’s Darfur region and other atrocities reportedly committed last month by paramilitary forces in conflict with the army. During the session, the Human Rights Council debated a…
Hundreds Killed in El Fasher Hospital Massacre Amid RSF Takeover, Says WHO and Sudan Doctors Network
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Sudan Doctors Network have reported that hundreds of patients and medical staff were killed inside a hospital in El Fasher, following the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) seizure of the city on Sunday. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed shock over reports that…
