{"id":243619,"date":"2026-09-07T21:07:54","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-human-rights-chief-turk-renews-call-for-end-to-spiralling-sudan-war\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T21:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T19:07:54","slug":"sudan-human-rights-chief-turk-renews-call-for-end-to-spiralling-sudan-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-human-rights-chief-turk-renews-call-for-end-to-spiralling-sudan-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Human Rights Chief T\u00fcrk Renews Call for End to Spiralling Sudan War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The ongoing war in Sudan took centre stage at the UN Human Rights Council on Monday where the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/about-us\/high-commissioner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UN High Commissioner for Human Rights<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/about-us\/high-commissioner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Volker T\u00fcrk<\/a>, led calls for an end to attacks on civilians in &#8220;markets, hospitals [and] fuel stations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Key points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>T\u00fcrk calls for an immediate ceasefire and end to foreign involvement<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Civilians face growing attacks, including from long-range drones<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>SAF and RSF may have committed war crimes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sudan&#8217;s healthcare system has suffered extensive damage<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Now well into its&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609070400.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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 ongoing war in Sudan took centre stage at the UN Human Rights Council on Monday where the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker T\u00fcrk, led calls for an end to attacks on civilians in &#8220;markets, hospitals [and] fuel stations&#8221;. Key points T\u00fcrk calls for an immediate ceasefire and end to foreign involvement Civilians [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":243620,"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\/00170592:5776c749c19af58bcee645b0e9e52d44:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,6880,6510,3575,257,7307,5100,254,18776,4708,1613,44005,6618],"class_list":["post-243619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-call","tag-chief","tag-human","tag-news","tag-renews","tag-rights","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spiralling","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-turk","tag-war"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00170592:5776c749c19af58bcee645b0e9e52d44:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243619","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=243619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}