The UN Human Rights Council on Friday ordered investigators to probe alleged atrocities in Sudan’s El-Fasher and to seek to identify perpetrators so they can be brought to justice.

The United Nations’ top rights body adopted a resolution ordering the UN’s independent fact-finding mission on Sudan to urgently investigate violations in El-Fasher.

The text also called on the investigative team to “identify, where possible” suspected perpetrators in a bid to ensure they are “held accountable”.

The decision came at the end of a special session called to address the situation in El-Fasher, amid mounting warnings of crimes against humanity and the risk of genocide.

“Bloodstains on the ground in El-Fasher have been photographed from space,” UN rights chief Volker Turk warned as he opened Frida

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