The UN Human Rights Council will hold an emergency session on the situation in al-Fashir, Sudan, following grave concerns about mass killings during the fall of the city to paramilitary forces, a UN diplomatic note showed on Thursday.
The Rapid Support Forces capture of al-Fashir, the Sudanese armys last holdout in Darfur, marked a milestone in the African countrys more than two-and-a-half-year civil war, giving the paramilitary group de facto control of more than a quarter of the territory.
The group has since agreed to a proposal for a humanitarian ceasefire, it said on Thursday.
