The United Nations’ top human rights body on Friday adopted a resolution ordering an urgent and independent fact-finding mission into allegations of human rights violations and other atrocities in the Sudanese city of El Fasher, where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have reportedly committed large-scale atrocities such as ethnically motivated killings, torture, summary executions, and widespread use of sexual and gender-based violence as a weapon of warfare.

The Human Rights Council (HRC) held a special session on Friday to discuss the human rights situation in and around El Fasher, which has emerged as the central locus of the ongoing crisis. Located in Western Sudan, the city was the last remaining Sudanese stronghold in North Darfur before the RSF overr

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