The International Criminal Court's (ICC) chief prosecutor told the UN Security Council on January 29 "there are grounds to believe" both Sudan's regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are committing war crimes in Darfur at present.
War erupted in Sudan on April 15, 2023 between the Sudanese armed forces and the RSF. ICC prosecutor Karim Khan launched an investigation in July last year into the surge of hostilities in Sudan's Darfur region.
The ICC's founding treaty, the Rome Statute, gives the court jurisdiction over four major crimes—genocide, crimes against humanity, the crime of aggression, and war crimes—that are grave breaches of the Geneva conventions. The conventions set the internationally accepted rules of armed conflict.
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