{"id":208983,"date":"2025-10-05T07:34:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T05:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-rights-chief-calls-for-urgent-action-to-protect-civilians-in-el-fasher\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T07:34:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T05:34:54","slug":"sudan-un-rights-chief-calls-for-urgent-action-to-protect-civilians-in-el-fasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-un-rights-chief-calls-for-urgent-action-to-protect-civilians-in-el-fasher\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: UN Rights Chief Calls for Urgent Action to Protect Civilians in El Fasher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">UN human rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk on Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2025\/10\/sudan-turk-calls-urgent-action-protect-civilians-and-prevent-large-scale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">warned that<\/a> civilians in Sudan&#8217;s El Fasher face the imminent risk of large-scale atrocities, as fighting intensifies around the regional capital of North Darfur, besieged for more than 500 days by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">&#8220;El Fasher is <strong>on the precipice of an even greater catastrophe<\/strong> if urgent measures are not taken to loosen the armed vice upon the city and to protect civilians,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Reports of the RSF deploying long-range drones&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510030006.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>UN human rights chief Volker T\u00fcrk on Thursday warned that civilians in Sudan&#8217;s El Fasher face the imminent risk of large-scale atrocities, as fighting intensifies around the regional capital of North Darfur, besieged for more than 500 days by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia. &#8220;El Fasher is on the precipice of an even greater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":208984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661909:692aba7918db42e3cc65801840119d9b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[6394,258,256,6137,6510,13304,43880,257,6202,5100,254,4708,1613,11318],"class_list":["post-208983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-chief","tag-civilians","tag-fasher","tag-news","tag-protect","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-urgent"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661909:692aba7918db42e3cc65801840119d9b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208983","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=208983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}