Overview
- A coalition of foreign ministers, including Germany’s Johann Wadephul and counterparts from the UK, Canada and others, urged an immediate ceasefire and a three‑month humanitarian pause, condemning ethnic killings, sexual violence, starvation tactics and aid obstruction as potential war crimes.
- UN human rights chief Volker Türk reported credible evidence of mass killings in Al‑Fashir and accounts of rape and gang rape after the RSF takeover, calling for urgent collective action and warning of grave risks spreading to Kordofan.
- UNICEF’s Sudan envoy Sheldon Yett likened recent patterns of violence to Rwanda in the 1990s, citing targeted attacks on ethnic groups, a collapse of order, and roughly 260,000 civilians trapped in Al‑Fashir as people resort to eating grass and animal feed while aid convoys come under fire.
- UN Women said evidence is mounting that rape is being used systematically as a weapon of war, with women facing assault even while searching for food in Darfur and other besieged areas.
- Following the RSF’s October 26 capture of Al‑Fashir, the UN describes Sudan as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with tens of thousands killed, around 12 million displaced, about 82,000 fleeing Al‑Fashir since the fall, and aid operations near collapse according to the IOM.