Virginia Gamba, UN Under-Secretary-General and Acting Special Adviser to Secretary-General António Guterres, has warned that the risk of genocide in Sudan’s devastating war remains very high.
Speaking before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Gamba expressed deep concern over the ongoing attacks targeting specific ethnic groups, particularly in the Darfur and Kordofan regions, stressing that such acts are of special concern to her mandate.
She emphasized that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militias continue to carry out ethnically motivated attacks against the Zaghawa, Masalit, and Fur communities, noting that the threat of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Sudan remains extremely serious.
The war, which erupted in mid-April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF, has killed tens of thousands, displaced nearly 13 million people, and forced around 3.7 million to flee abroad, creating what the United Nations describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
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