NEW YORK CITY: The US on Thursday accused Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied militias of committing genocide in the besieged city of El-Fasher in North Darfur, as the UN continued to warn of escalating atrocities against civilians there. “The Rapid Support Forces and allied militias have committed genocide,” the US deputy ambassador to the UN, Dorothy Shea, told a Security Council meeting on the situation in Sudan. “They have systematically killed men and boys, even infants, and deliberately targeted women and children for rape and other forms of brutal sexual violence.

NEW YORK CITY: The UN on Monday urged warring military faction the Rapid Support Forces to allow civilians in Sudan to flee the besieged city of El-Fasher, and to grant safe…

Fears of genocide are mounting in Sudan after paramilitary Rapid Support Forces captured the strategic city of El-Fasher, ending an 18-month siege and sparking reports of mass…