Geneva, Feb 9, 2026 (AFP) - UN decries 'preventable human rights catastrophe' in Sudan's El-Fasher

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2026-02-09

The atrocities unleashed on Sudan's El-Fasher last October were a "preventable human rights catastrophe", the UN rights chief said Monday, warning they now risked being repeated in Kordofan. Giving the UN Human Rights Council an update on the situation in El-Fasher, Volker Turk decried the horrific scenes after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) unleashed a "wave of intense violence", following 18 months of brutal siege. "Thousands of pe......

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