Published On 14/11/2025
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Last update: 05:07 (Mecca time)
Today, Friday, the Human Rights Council will vote in a special session in Sudan on a draft resolution condemning the violations that it said were committed by the Rapid Support Forces in El Fasher and its environs following their recent attack on the city.
The draft resolution – a copy of which was obtained by Al Jazeera – condemns what was described as widespread atrocities reported, including, according to the text of the draft, ethnically motivated killings, torture, field executions, arbitrary arrests, rape, and more.
The Council requests the fact-finding mission to conduct an urgent investigation into the violations in El Fasher and its surroundings by all parties, and to identify those believed to be responsible for the violations.
The draft resolution denounces all forms of external interference, which it said fuel the conflict, and calls on all parties internally and externally to respect Sudan’s unity and territorial integrity. It also calls for facilitating immediate and unhindered access to humanitarian aid, and ensuring the protection of civilians under international law, including allowing those wishing to leave El Fasher.
On Thursday, Sudan welcomed the United States holding the Rapid Support Forces responsible for the military escalation and accusing them of committing atrocities against civilians.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused the Rapid Support Forces of involvement in committing atrocities against civilians, including raping women.
Rubio added that these forces are not fulfilling their obligations, and called for a ban on supplying them with weapons, without ruling out their inclusion on “terrorist lists” to help resolve the crisis.
On the other hand, the Rapid Support Forces in Sudan criticized the American minister’s statements, and Al-Basha Tabeek, advisor to the Commander of the Rapid Support Forces, said that Rubio’s statements were unsuccessful, and did not serve the path of the international Quartet, nor the American initiative regarding a humanitarian truce, as he put it.
For his part, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of a dangerous deterioration in Sudan, expressing his deep concern about the mass atrocities in El Fasher and the escalation of violence in Kordofan.
In a joint press conference with the President of the African Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssef, in New York, Guterres called on both the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces to engage in an urgent negotiating track with his special envoy.
Since April 2023, Sudan has witnessed a military conflict between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, which has led to the deaths of tens of thousands and the displacement of about 13 million people, in addition to the exacerbation of a humanitarian crisis described as one of the worst in the world.