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Displaced families from el-Fasher at a displacement camp where they sought refuge from fighting between government forces and the RSF, in Tawila, Darfur region, Sudan, October 31, 2025. (The Norwegian Refugee Council via AP)
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The Foreign Ministers of Germany, Jordan and the United Kingdom jointly called on Saturday (November 1, 2025) for an immediate ceasefire in the war in Sudan, describing the situation there in stark, apocalyptic terms after a paramilitary force seized the last major city in the East African nation’s Darfur region.

United Nations officials have warned that fighters with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have rampaged through the Darfur city of el-Fasher, reportedly killing more than 450 people in a hospital and carrying out ethnically targeted killings of civilians and sexual assaults. While the RSF have denied killing people at the hospital, those who have escaped el-Fasher, satellite images and videos circulating on social media provide glimpses of what appears to be mass slaughter taking place in the city.

At the Manama Dialogue security summit in Bahrain, British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper on Saturday (November 1) spoke in grim words about events in el-Fasher, where a paramilitary force known as the Rapid Support Forces has seized the city.

“Just as a combination of leadership and international cooperation has made progress in Gaza, it is currently badly failing to deal with the humanitarian crisis and the devastating conflict in Sudan, because the reports from Darfur in recent days have truly horrifying atrocities,” Ms. Cooper said. “Mass executions, starvation and the devastating use of rape as a weapon of war, with women and children bearing the brunt of the largest humanitarian crisis in the 21st century. For too long, this terrible conflict has been neglected, while suffering has simply increased.”

She added that “no amount of aid can resolve a crisis of this magnitude until the guns fall silent.”

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul echoed Ms. Cooper’s concern, directly calling out the RSF for its violence in el-Fasher. “Sudan is absolutely an apocalyptic situation,” Mr. Wadephul said.

Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Sudan has not received “the attention it deserves. A humanitarian crisis of inhumane proportions has taken place there. We’ve got to stop that,” he said.

Bahrain’s government late on Wednesday (October 29) rescinded an accreditation for The Associated Press to cover the summit, after a “post-approval review” of that permission. The government did not elaborate on why the visa was revoked. Earlier that day, the AP published a story on long-detained activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja beginning an “open-ended” hunger strike in Bahrain over his internationally criticised imprisonment.

Mr. Al-Khawaja halted his hunger strike late on Friday (October 31) after receiving letters from the European Union and Denmark regarding his case, his daughter Maryam al-Khawaja said.

Published – November 01, 2025 01:48 pm IST



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Demonstrators hold signs during a rally on the opening day of peace talks for Sudan at the Place des Nations in front of the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday (August 14, 2024).
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The U.S. special envoy for Sudan said on Thursday (August 15, 2024) he wanted “tangible results” from talks on ending the devastating war in the country despite the Sudanese Government staying away.

War has raged since April 2023 between the Sudanese army under the country’s de facto ruler Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo.

The RSF delegation is taking part in the US-brokered talks on securing a ceasefire, which began at an undisclosed location in Switzerland on Wednesday (August 14, 2024).

However, the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) are unhappy with the format arranged by Washington and are not participating. The U.S. special envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello said on X (formerly Twitter) that the second day of the talks was under way.

“We continue our relentless work with international partners to save lives and ensure we achieve tangible results,” he said.

At the end of the first day, the United States again urged Sudan’s army to join the talks, which are taking place behind closed doors and could last up to 10 days.

Sudan again made its opposition clear on Thursday (August 15, 2024).

“It is the nature of Sudanese people to reject threats and intimidation,” Finance Minister Gibril Ibrahim wrote on X.

“Their government, of the same ilk, will not accept mediation imposed by force and will not be a party to negotiations aimed at legalizing the criminal militia’s occupation of civilian facilities and preserving its place in the political and security scene in the future,” he said.

The talks are co-hosted by Saudi Arabia and Switzerland, with the African Union, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and the United Nations acting as a steering group. The Sudanese army has repeatedly accused the UAE of backing the RSF —accusations the UAE denies.

Previous talks in the Saudi city of Jeddah came to nothing. The talks in Switzerland aim to agree on a ceasefire, improve humanitarian access and set up enforcement mechanisms.

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The brutal conflict has triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.

More than half of the population faces acute hunger, while fighting has forced one in five people to flee their homes and tens of thousands have died.





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