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Foreign Minister of Germany, Jordan and the United Kingdom jointly called for an immediate ceasefire in the war on Saturday SudanThe situation in the East African country’s Darfur region has been described in stark, apocalyptic terms after a paramilitary force seized the last major city in the Darfur region.
UN officials have warned that fighters along with paramilitary forces rapid aid force The Darfur town of al-Fashar was reportedly ransacked, more than 450 people were killed in a hospital, and ethnically targeted killings and sexual assaults of civilians were carried out. While RSF has denied killing people in the hospital, including those who escaped al-Fashar, satellite images and videos circulated on social media show a mass massacre taking place in the city.
At the Manama Dialogue security summit in Bahrain, British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Saturday spoke in sober terms about the events in Al-Fashar, where a paramilitary force known as the Rapid Support Forces has taken control of the city.
Cooper said, “The combination of leadership and international cooperation that has made progress in Gaza is currently failing miserably to deal with the humanitarian crisis and the devastating conflict in Sudan, as reports from Darfur in recent days reveal truly horrific atrocities.”
“With mass executions, starvation and the devastating use of rape as a weapon of war, women and children are bearing the brunt of the greatest humanitarian crisis of the 21st century. For too long, this terrible conflict has been ignored, while suffering has increased.”
He said that “no amount of aid can solve a crisis of this magnitude until the guns are silenced.”
German Foreign Minister Johann Waddefull echoed Cooper’s concerns, holding the RSF directly responsible for the violence in el-Fashar.
“Sudan is an absolutely apocalyptic situation,” Wadeful said.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Sudan “did not receive the attention it deserved. There is a humanitarian crisis of inhuman proportions.”
“We have to stop this,” he said.
The government of Bahrain late Wednesday revoked The Associated Press’s accreditation to cover the summit, following a “post-approval review” of that permission. The government did not explain why the visa was cancelled. Earlier that day, the AP had published a story on longtime detained activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja launching an “open” hunger strike in Bahrain against the internationally criticized imprisonment.
Al-Khawaja stopped his hunger strike late Friday after receiving letters from the European Union and Denmark regarding his case, his daughter Maryam al-Khawaja said.