Recent reports from human rights organisations have highlighted ethnic-based attacks by militias allied with the Sudanese army in the central state of Al-Jazira, a development that the UN described as potentially amounting to war crimes and other atrocity crimes.

The United Nations (UN) human rights chief warned on Friday that the war in Sudan is becoming “more dangerous” for civilians, following reports from

Sudan’s conflict is worsening, and the UN Human Rights Office chief Volker Türk says it is becoming even more dangerous for civilians after reports that dozens were brutally killed in ethnically targeted attacks in the southeastern state of Al Jazirah and amid reports of an imminent battle for control of the capital,

The conflict in Sudan is becoming increasingly lethal for the civilian population, UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk said in Geneva on Friday. Türk pointed to reports that dozens had been killed in ethnically targeted attacks in the south-eastern state of al-Jazirah and to an imminent battle for control of Khartoum.