Women and children from Al Fashir in Sudan at a camp where they sought refuge from fighting between government forces and the RSF. Photograph: AP

Members of the UN Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution for an independent fact-finding mission to investigate reported mass killings in Al Fashir, Sudan.

At a special session of the council in Geneva on the situation in the city in Darfur which fell to paramilitary forces in October, the text passed without a vote – a strong sign of international support.

The fact-finding mission will also seek to identify the perpetrators of violations allegedly committed by

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