Following Monday’s emergency closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council, the United States publicly told the countries supplying weapons to Sudan’s warring factions to cease all sales as “a crisis of epic proportions” is brewing in the divided North African nation.  

In Sudan’s westernmost Darfur region, the city of El Fasher is the only capital not yet to be captured by the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Still, it is nonetheless “on the precipice of a large-scale massacre,” US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield explained to reporters after the meeting.  

Thomas-Greenfield noted that in Darfur, history “is repeating itself” in the vast region made largely up of Sudan’s ethnic minority groups. Alluding to the genocide that ravaged Darfur more than two decades ago, the US ambassador added that there are “credible reports” that the RSF is raiding and pillaging villages near El Fasher and that an attack on the city is “imminent.”  

Source: The Jerusalem post