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- The fighting has killed tens of thousands and displaced 13 million, including 4 million who fled abroad, triggering what the UN has called the world鈥檚 worst humanitarian crisis
GENEVA: The risk of genocide in Sudan鈥檚 devastating civil war remains 鈥渧ery high,鈥� amid ongoing ethnically motivated attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, a top UN official warned Monday.
Since April 2023, Sudan has been torn apart by a power struggle between army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and RSF commander Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo.
The fighting has killed tens of thousands and displaced 13 million, including 4 million who fled abroad, triggering what the UN has called the world鈥檚 worst humanitarian crisis.
鈥淏oth parties have committed serious human rights violations,鈥� said Virginia Gamba, a UN under-secretary-general and acting special adviser to UN chief Antonio Guterres on the prevention of genocide.
鈥淥f specific concern to my mandate is the continued and targeted attacks against certain ethnic groups, particularly in the Darfur and Kordofan regions,鈥� she told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
She highlighted in particular that the RSF and allied armed militias 鈥渃ontinue to conduct ethnically motivated attacks against the Zaghawa, Masalit and Fur groups.鈥�
鈥淭he risk of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Sudan remains very high,鈥� Gamba warned.