Overview
- Delegates convened in Geneva to address reports of large-scale abuses in El-Fasher following the city's fall to the Rapid Support Forces.
- Member states are considering a draft resolution to create a UN fact-finding mission tasked with urgent inquiry and identification of perpetrators.
- The UN human rights office says it is compiling material that could be used in legal proceedings, with the International Criminal Court following the situation closely.
- Volker Türk called the bloodshed a "stain" on the world and urged governments to move beyond rhetoric to concrete steps.
- The RSF seizure of El-Fasher on 26 October consolidated its control of Darfur in its war with the Sudanese army.