UK, Germany and Jordan call for immediate ceasefire in Sudan war

Families from el-Fasher at a displacement camp (NRC via AP)

The United Kingdom, Germany and Jordan have jointly called for an immediate ceasefire in the war in Sudan after a paramilitary force seized the last major city in the East African nation’s Darfur region.

United Nations officials have warned that fighters with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have rampaged through the Darfur city of el-Fasher, reportedly killing more than 450 people in a hospital and carrying out ethnically-targeted killings of civilians and sexual assaults.