{"id":96968,"date":"2026-09-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=96968"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:00:00","slug":"human-rights-chief-turk-renews-call-for-end-to-spiralling-sudan-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=96968","title":{"rendered":"Human rights chief T\u00fcrk renews call for end to spiralling Sudan war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3><strong>Key points<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>T\u00fcrk calls for an immediate ceasefire and end to foreign involvement<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Civilians face growing attacks, including from long-range drones<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>SAF and RSF may have committed war crimes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sudan\u2019s healthcare system has suffered extensive damage<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now well into its fourth year, the war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has created a massive humanitarian emergency, with more than six million people displaced internally and another 4.5 million forced to seek shelter across Sudan\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n<p>In his appeal for an end to the violence, UN rights chief Mr. T\u00fcrk warned about the deteriorating situation in Kordofan, Blue Nile, and North and West Darfur, stressing that civilians remain at \u201cimminent\u201d risk.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Ceasefire call<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThere needs to be an immediate ceasefire, an end to foreign involvement, and a return to inclusive civilian rule,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n<p>The High Commissioner\u2019s appeal follows the publication of a new report into the conflict by senior independent investigators appointed by the Human Rights Council. The investigators are not UN staff and they are not paid for their work.<\/p>\n<p>Their key findings include the increasing use of long-range drones against civilians and the significant support allegedly provided to paramilitary rebel fighters by \u201cindividuals and entities\u201d\u00a0in the United Arab Emirates, Chad,\u00a0southeastern\u00a0Libya and Puntland in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are increasingly using long-range drones,\u00a0resulting in\u00a0attacks now reaching\u00a0far beyond traditional front lines,\u201d said Mohamed Othman, chair of the Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan, which was created by the Council in Geneva in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Othman also stressed that drone strikes had injured and killed civilians \u201cin their homes, schools, hospitals, markets, displacement sites and places of refuge and while attending weddings, funerals and other community gatherings\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Turning to El Obeid\u00a0city in North Kordofan, where access is heavily contested, the human rights investigator warned that \u201crepeated RSF drone attacks\u201d had impacted water, energy and other vital civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese attacks\u00a0underscore that these risks remain acute, as civilians continue to face repeated aerial threats, displacement and pressure on already strained essential services\u201d, he said,\u00a0in a city under partial siege by the RSF.<\/p>\n<p>The fact-finding mission\u2019s report highlights how both parties to the conflict have carried out attacks on civilians.<\/p>\n<p>These included \u201csuccessive\u201d RSF drone strikes on a kindergarten and a hospital in Kalogie, South Kordofan, that left 114 dead including\u00a060\u00a0children, along with SAF attacks on Ad-Da&#8217;ein\u00a0Teaching Hospital that killed at least 70 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on the evidence gathered, we found reasonable grounds to believe that both the SAF and the RSF committed serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law which may amount to war crimes,\u201d Mr. Othman told the Council.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Healthcare devastation<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In a separate update from Khartoum, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) reported on Monday that the devastation of three key hospitals in the capital has been repeated across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Before the conflict, Khartoum Teaching Hospital, the Ophthalmology Hospital and the Dental Hospital were major referral and teaching hospitals. Today, their buildings and medical equipment have sustained extensive damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOperating theatres have been destroyed, imaging equipment lost and several wards have collapsed,\u201d said WHO Representative in Sudan, Dr Abdinasir Abubakar. \u201cEntire blocks and departments are out of service. The buildings need urgent structural repair before patients can be admitted safely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the difficult working conditions, hospital staff remain present to treat patients \u201cin the parts of the buildings that remain usable\u201d, Dr Abubakar continued, in an appeal for assistance to repair the \u201cimmense\u201d damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/story\/2026\/09\/1168287\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key points T\u00fcrk calls for an immediate ceasefire and end to foreign involvement Civilians face growing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1082,367,186,2656,187,3584,1028,628,392],"class_list":["post-96968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa","tag-call","tag-chief","tag-human","tag-renews","tag-rights","tag-spiralling","tag-sudan","tag-turk","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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