As ethnic violence escalates and a humanitarian crisis worsens in Sudan, a top UN aid official warns that violence against civilians is ‘verging on pure evil’.
A war erupted on April 15 between the Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after weeks of rising tension between the two sides over a plan to integrate forces as part of a transition from military rule to civilian democracy.
People fleeing to Chad have reported a new surge in ethnically-driven killings in Sudan’s West Darfur as the RSF took over the main army base in the state capital, El Geneina.
