‘Women and girls are being raped, people being mutilated and killed — with utter impunity,’ said Tom Fletcher, the UN’s top relief official, late last month about the takeover of El-Fasher, in Sudan’s Darfur, by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). After a 500-day-long battle, the RSF moved house to house in El Fasher targeting civilians. The city, already gripped by hunger, “has descended into an even darker hell,” Mr. Fletcher told the Security Council on October 30.

The plight of Darfur is only a slice of the tragedy of Sudan, which plunged into a deadly civil war between the Army and the RSF in April 2023. More than 12 million people are estimated to have been displaced. More than 61,000 people are estimated to have been killed. While both sides are accused of committing atroc

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