United Nations officials have warned that fighters with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have rampaged through the Darfur city of el-Fasher, reportedly killing more than 450 people in a hospital and carrying out ethnically targeted killings of civilians and sexual assaults.
Sudanese locals protesting against the atrocities in the country. Pic/PTI
The foreign ministers of Germany, Jordan and the United Kingdom jointly called on Saturday for an immediate ceasefire in the war in Sudan, describing the situation there in stark, apocalyptic terms after a paramilitary force seized the last major city in the East African nation’s Darfur region. United Nations officials have warned that fighters with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have rampaged through the Darfur city of el-Fasher, reportedly killing more than 450 people in a hospital and carrying out ethnically targeted killings of civilians and sexual assaults.
At the Manama Dialogue security summit in Bahrain, British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Saturday said, “Just as a combination of leadership and international cooperation has made progress in Gaza, it is currently badly failing to deal with the humanitarian crisis and the devastating conflict in Sudan, because the reports from Darfur in recent days have truly horrifying atrocities.” German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul echoed Cooper’s concern, directly calling out the RSF for its violence in el-Fasher. “Sudan is absolutely an apocalyptic situation,” he said. Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Sudan has not received “the attention it deserves. A humanitarian crisis of inhumane proportions has taken place there.”
Yvette Cooper, British Foreign Secretary
The war has killed more than 40,000 people, according to UN figures, but aid groups say that is an undercount and the true number could be many times higher. It has displaced more than 14 million people and fuelled outbreaks of diseases believed to have killed thousands. Famine has been declared in parts of Darfur, a region the size of Spain, and other parts of the country.
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