GENEVA: The UN rights council on Monday ordered an “urgent inquiry” into violations and abuses in the Sudanese city of El-Obeid, warning of the looming risk of “large-scale atrocities.” In a resolution adopted by consensus, the 47-member council voiced “deep concern about the imminent risk of large-scale atrocities” in El-Obeid, calling on an independent UN fact-finding mission to conduct “an urgent inquiry into any violations and abuses of international... law and related to international crimes” allegedly committed there.

The United Nations human rights chief is sounding a “red alert” about possible atrocity crimes in and near a strategic city in central Sudan

GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations human rights chief on Friday sounded a “red alert” about possible atrocity crimes in and near a strategic city in central Sudan, calling on