VIENNA, 5 May. (DPA/EP) –
The UN Human Rights Council will debate next Thursday in a special session in Geneva the escalation of fighting between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) amid the collapse of a new ceasefire agreed by the parts.
According to a spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Council, the session, which will be held in Geneva at the request of Germany, the United Kingdom, Norway and the United States, is called “the impact of the conflict in Sudan on Human Rights.”
The country has been plunged into combat between the Army and the RSF since April 15, without the agreements announced for various ceasefires having been transferred to an end to the hostilities, which have left hundreds dead and tens of thousands of internally displaced persons and refugees to the countries of the region.
The hostilities broke out in the context of an increase in tensions over the integration of the RSF into the Armed Forces, a key part of an agreement signed in December to form a new civilian government and reactivate the transition open after the overthrow in 2019 of Omar Hasan al Bashir, damaged by the coup in October 2021, in which the prime minister of unity, Abdalá Hamdok, was overthrown.