At least 91 people have been killed in Sudan’s besieged city of el-Fasher in attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) over 10 days last month, the United Nations says.
The attacks took place during intensified fighting between the RSF and Sudan’s army around the city, the largest urban center in the Darfur region that remains under the control of the military and its allies, known as the Joint Forces.
UN rights chief Volker Turk said on Thursday that the city’s Daraja Oula neighborhood was repeatedly attacked and subjected to RSF artillery shelling, drone strikes, and ground incursions from September 19 to 29.
He called for urgent action to prevent “large-scale, ethnically driven attacks and atrocities in el-Fasher,” adding that atrocities “can be averted if all actors take concrete action to uphold international law, demand respect for civilian life and property, and prevent the continued commission of atrocity crimes”.
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