UN Security Council demands halt to fighting in Darfur’s El Fasher

FILE - Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces secure an area in East Nile province, Sudan, June 22, 2019. The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution June 13, 2024, demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force halt its siege of El Fasher.

The U.N. Security Council demanded Thursday that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) halt their siege on the North Darfur capital, El Fasher, as they are poised to take the last remaining city in Sudan’s Darfur region from the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).