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UN human rights council could send mission to investigate Sudan massacres
A Sudanese child who fled el-Fasher city with family after Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region, receives treatment at a camp in Tawila, Sudan, November 2, 2025

THE UN’S top human rights body held a special session today on the atrocities reportedly committed by Sudan’s rebel Rapid Support Forces following their conquest of El Fasher.

The Human Rights Council is considering commissioning an existing team of independent experts to investigate the alleged massacre of over 450 people in a hospital, as well as house-to-house killings and rapes that the World Health Organisation says occurred when the RSF swept into El Fasher.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called this week for international action to halt the flow of arms to the RSF.

The rebel group, which collaborated with the Sudanese army to crush Sudan’s democratic revolution in 2021 but which since 2023 has been at war with it, appears to be supplied by the United Arab Emirates, through which it has obtained weaponry originating from a wide range of states, from Britain to China.

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