The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, Germany and Jordan have jointly called for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan after recent atrocities and probable human rights abuses were uncovered in the East African Nation’s Darfur region.
The statement described the situation in Sudan, which has been gripped by a brutal civil war for more than two years, as “stark” and “apocalyptic,” after a paramilitary force seized the last major city in the western Sudanese region.
United Nations officials have warned that fighters with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have rampaged through the city of al-Fasher, reportedly killing more than 450 people in a hospital and carrying out ethnically targeted killings of civilians and sexual assaults.
Families from al-Fasher
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