UN to vote on a resolution demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force halt its siege of a Darfur city

EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council will vote on a resolution demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force halt its siege of the only capital in the vast western region of Darfur that it doesn’t control. The draft resolution to be voted Thursday expresses “grave concern” at the spreading violence and credible reports that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are carrying out “ethnically motivated violence” in El Fasher, where more than 800,000 people are reportedly trapped. Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital Khartoum and spread to other regions including Darfur, which became synonymous with genocide two decades ago. The U.N. says over 14,000 people have been killed and 33,000 injured.