Sudan: UN Condemns RSF Escalation Around El Obeid As Tasees Backs Ceasefire
The council warned of mass atrocities and urged humanitarian access as RSF attacks and drone strikes on hospitals intensified, officials said.
- On Monday, the UN Human Rights Council unanimously condemned the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for escalating violence in El Obeid, warning that the North Kordofan capital faces a growing risk of mass atrocities.
- The Sudanese Armed Forces conditioned acceptance of a U.S. proposal for an immediate 90-day humanitarian truce on the full withdrawal of the RSF from occupied cities, according to government documents.
- Sponsored by the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Norway, the resolution warns of imminent mass atrocities and conflict-related sexual violence following RSF troop build-ups around the city.
- Sudan's delegation objected to provisions allowing the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission to investigate alleged violations, arguing the resolution placed both sides on equal footing.
- Amid a drone-led RSF campaign in the Kordofan region, U.S. Senior Adviser for Arab and African Affairs Massad Boulos said he was "extremely pleased" General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan accepted the latest peace proposal.
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Sudan army says US peace plan must call for full RSF withdrawal from cities, documents show
By Khalid Abdelaziz July 9 (Reuters) - The Sudanese army has conditioned any broad acceptance of a U.S. proposal for ending the country's three-year-old civil war on the full withdrawal by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces from cities it has occupi...
Al Obeid has been surrounded for months by the militia hostile to the government, and the great massacres already carried out in Al Fashir are feared to happen again.
The capital of North Kordofan and its half a million inhabitants are the latest victim of the Rapid Support Forces' (RSF) strategy of encircling and subduing major Sudanese cities.
In the civil war country of Sudan, the city of al-Obeid is becoming a new focal point. Survival is becoming increasingly difficult for the people because the RSF militia is besieging and bombing the city. Experts warn of a scenario like in al-Fashir.
Sudan: UN Condemns RSF Escalation Around El Obeid As Tasees Backs Ceasefire
El Obeid / El Fasher / Geneva / Chad -- The UN Human Rights Council has unanimously condemned the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for escalating violence in and around El Obeid, warning that the North Kordofan capital faces a growing risk of mass atrocities, while the RSF-aligned Sudan Founding Alliance (Tasees) called for an immediate ceasefire and renewed political negotiations.
In a new report, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Sudan expands upon its findings published in February, which already reported “early warning signs of a genocidal dynamic.” The investigators provide new information on sexual violence, enforced disappearances, arbitrary detentions, and massacres perpetrated in El Fasher. […]
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