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Blocking aid to Sudan could be a ‘war crime’

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The United Nations human rights chief has said that the apparent deliberate denial of safe access for humanitarian agencies within war-torn Sudan could amount to a war crime.

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been fighting Sudan’s army for control of the country since April last year in a war that has killed thousands, displaced millions of people inside and outside the country and sparked warnings of famine.

Addressing the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Volker Turk, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said Sudan

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