In a report released on Friday, the UN’s Human Rights Office (OHCHR) reported that as the war approached its two-year anniversary, civilian deaths and ethnic violence, increased significantly. According to reports, paramilitaries carried out several fatalities in an attack on a mosque in Darfur on the same day.
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According to the report, more civilian deaths have occurred across Sudan, with 3, 384 of those deaths occurring in the first six months of the year, or 80 percent of the 4, 238 civilian deaths that have occurred throughout the entire year until 2024.
OHCHR chief Volker Turk said in a statement that “Sudan’s conflict is a forgotten one, and I hope that my office’s report brings the attention to this disastrous situation where atrocity crimes, including war crimes, are being committed.
According to the UNHumanRights report, the #Sudan crisis worsens as a result of rising civilian casualties and worsening ethnic violence.
States must confront the depressing reality of the wider protection crisis and use their influence to put an end to this conflict.
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The report noted that “a number of trends continued to permeate the first half of 2025, including a continued pattern of sexual violence, indiscriminate attacks, and the widespread use of retaliatory violence against civilians, particularly on an ethnic basis, against those accused of “collaboration” with opposing parties.
The use of drones is among recent trends, including those involving attacks on civilian targets and those in Sudan’s north and east, which have so far been largely spared by the conflict, it said.
According to Turk, “the growing ethnicization of the conflict, which builds on existing inequalities and discrimination, poses serious risks for country’s long-term stability and social cohesion.”
Without urgent action to protect civilians and without the swift and unrestrained delivery of humanitarian aid, “Many more lives will be lost.”
Sudan has been the site of a brutal conflict between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and displaced by the conflict. It is considered to be one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world, with southern Sudan and parts of Darfur frequently experiencing famine.
The army is in effect dividing the country, with the RSF dominating the south and nearly the entire western Darfur region, while the army is in charge of the north, east, and center.
The United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the United Arab Emirates have so far failed in their efforts to broker a ceasefire between the conflicting parties.
In a social media post, the Sudan Doctors’ Network NGO reported that the RSF had killed 43 civilians in a drone strike on a mosque in the beleaguered city of El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur.
The attack, which showed the group’s “blatant disregard for humanitarian and religious values and international law,” was described as a “heinous crime” against unarmed civilians by the NGO.
A video was posted by the Resistance Committees in El-Fasher, a group made up of local residents from the community who track abuses, that reportedly showed parts of the mosque being reduced to rubble with several bodies scattered on the site, which is now replete with debris.
The RSF targeted a number of unarmed civilians, including women and older people, in city displacement shelters, according to a report released on Thursday.
Source: Aljazeera
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