Human Rights Council extends mandate of Fact-Finding Mission in Sudan for a year

It also condemned "all forms of external interference that fuel the conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, including the supply of weapons and military equipment, the deployment of foreign elements participating in or supporting military operations, as well as mercenaries".

It urged "all parties to the conflict, and external actors, whether states or other entities, to respect the unity and territorial integrity of Sudan and to preserve it".

It expressed "deep concern over the ongoing tragic humanitarian and human rights crisis in Sudan".

It also condemned "violations of international humanitarian law, and human rights abuses reported throughout Sudan, committed by all parties to the conflict".

It stressed "the absence of a military solution to the crisis in Sudan", and renewed the call for "all parties to immediately and fully cease fire without preconditions, and to reach a peaceful negotiated solution to the conflict".

As of 19:45 (GMT), no comment has been issued by the Sudanese government or the "Rapid Support Forces" regarding the extension of the mission's work.

The United Nations Fact-Finding Mission was established in October 2023 and has been extended annually in the same month, with the aim of documenting human rights violations committed in Sudan since the outbreak of war on April 15, 2023.

The Sudanese Foreign Ministry had then rejected the decision to establish the mission.

There are growing UN and international calls to end the war to prevent Sudan from a humanitarian disaster that has begun to push millions to famine and death due to food shortages caused by the fighting.

Since April 2023, Sudan has been witnessing a war between the army and the "Rapid Support Forces", which has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and the displacement of about 13 million people, according to UN and international estimates.