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Good morning, this is Michelle. Mass atrocities in El Fasher are forcing a reckoning in Geneva. The UK is leading a push for an emergency Human Rights Council session – only this time, it may find Khartoum onside, eager to fix the spotlight on its rival, the RSF.

Meanwhile, treaty negotiations at the UN health agency hit a rough patch, and prospects for global health funding look grim.

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Michelle Langrand

05.11.2025


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Displaced children and families from El Fasher at a camp in Tawila, Darfur, seek refuge from fighting between government forces and the RSF, 27 October 2025. (Keystone/Mohammed Jammal/UNICEF via AP)

UK seeks urgent UN rights meeting on carnage in Sudan’s El Fasher. Amid atrocities in Darfur, the UK is pressing for an urgent Human Rights Council debate that could gain Sudan’s support as it seeks to focus scrutiny on the RSF and its sponsor, the UAE.

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