Geneva: The United Nations Human Rights Council held an emergency session on Friday as global concern deepened over reports of large scale killings and other serious abuses in the Sudanese city of El Fasher. The city fell to the Rapid Support Forces in late October after months of intense fighting.

During the special meeting, member states approved a resolution calling for an immediate investigation into what the UN describes as some of the worst crimes seen in the current conflict. The fact finding mission will examine reports of mass killings, targeted attacks on ethnic groups, sexual violence, abductions, and the destruction of essential services.

UN human rights chief Volker Turk said the world had watched the situation in El Fasher deteriorate for months and warned that the scale

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