{"id":190325,"date":"2025-02-02T05:05:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T03:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-rights-chief-alarmed-by-summary-executions-attacks-on-civilians\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T05:05:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T03:05:56","slug":"sudan-un-rights-chief-alarmed-by-summary-executions-attacks-on-civilians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-rights-chief-alarmed-by-summary-executions-attacks-on-civilians\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan &#8211; UN Rights Chief &#8216;Alarmed&#8217; By Summary Executions, Attacks On Civilians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/about-us\/high-commissioner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN High Commissioner for Human Rights<\/a>, Volker T\u00fcrk, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2025\/01\/sudan-un-human-rights-chief-alarmed-summary-executions-khartoum-north\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voiced deep alarm<\/a> over reports of summary executions of civilians allegedly carried out by fighters and militias allied with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the city of Khartoum North, calling for an immediate halt to the killings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">Government forces and a rival military &#8211; the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) &#8211; have been battling for control of the country since April 2023 in what Mr. T\u00fcrk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2025\/01\/sudan-conflict-taking-more-dangerous-turn-civilians\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> a <strong>&#8220;senseless war&#8221;<\/strong>, which has recently taken&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502010332.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, has voiced deep alarm over reports of summary executions of civilians allegedly carried out by fighters and militias allied with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the city of Khartoum North, calling for an immediate halt to the killings. Government forces and a rival military &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":190326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,8834,306,6510,13304,9533,257,5100,254,4708,1613,13208],"class_list":["post-190325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alarmed","tag-attacks","tag-chief","tag-civilians","tag-executions","tag-news","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-summary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}