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Rights chief fears another wave of violence similar to el-Fasher as death toll mounts across strategic region.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The United Nations has warned that the Kordofan region of Sudan could face another wave of mass atrocities as fierce fighting between rival armed forces threatens a humanitarian catastrophe.<\/p>\n UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Thursday that history was \u201crepeating itself\u201d in Kordofan following last month\u2019s fall of el-Fasher, the capital of Sudan\u2019s North Darfur state, where warnings of impending violence were largely ignored by the international community before widespread killings occurred.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n \u201cIt is truly shocking to see history repeating itself in Kordofan so soon after the horrific events in el-Fasher,\u201d Turk said, urging global powers to prevent the region from suffering a similar fate.<\/p>\n Since late October, when the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces captured Bara, in North Kordofan state, the UN has documented at least 269 civilian deaths from aerial bombardment, artillery fire and summary killings.<\/p>\n Communication blackouts across the region mean the actual toll is possibly far higher, with reports emerging of revenge attacks, arbitrary detentions, sexual violence and forced recruitment of children.<\/p>\n The RSF claimed control of the West Kordofan city of Babnusa earlier this week, with footage showing its fighters moving through the military base there. The army denied that the city had fallen.<\/p>\n The Sudan Doctors Network said it was \u201cclosely monitoring, with concern, developments in Babnusa,\u201d and urged the international community to pressure the RSF to allow civilians to evacuate.<\/p>\n Hospitals have been overrun in the area, with most of al-Nuhud Hospital in West Kordofan now out of action.<\/p>\n The World Health Organization says nearly 1,700 health workers and patients have been killed in Sudan since the conflict began.<\/p>\n Key cities, including Kadugli and Dilling, are now under siege, with famine confirmed in Kadugli and looming in Dilling. All warring parties are blocking humanitarian access.<\/p>\n More than 45,000 people have fled their homes in Kordofan in recent weeks as the violence has spread across the vast central region.<\/p>\n \u201cWe cannot remain silent in front of yet another man-made catastrophe,\u201d Turk said, demanding that armed groups allow life-saving aid to reach those facing starvation.<\/p>\n The fighting erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF, a powerful paramilitary group. The war has since killed tens of thousands and displaced nearly 12 million people across the country.<\/p>\n Following the fall of el-Fasher, the last major Darfur city under the army and its allies\u2019 control, attention has shifted to Kordofan in central Sudan.<\/p>\n Kordofan\u2019s strategic importance makes it a key territory for both sides. The region sits between RSF-controlled Darfur in the west and government-held territory in the east and north, serving as a vital corridor that linnks the warring factions\u2019 heartlands.<\/p>\n Control of major cities like El Obeid would give the RSF a direct route towards the capital Khartoum, which government forces recaptured earlier this year.<\/p>\n Before el-Fasher fell in November, the UN issued urgent warnings about potential atrocities. Those alerts went largely unheeded.<\/p>\n After the city\u2019s capture, mass killings ensued, with corpses visible from satellite imagery, prompting UN chief Antonio Guterres to describe it as a \u201ccrime scene\u201d.<\/p>\n Amnesty International has since called for war crimes investigations, and the European Union has placed sanctions on Abdelrahim Dagalo, the RSF\u2019s deputy and brother of the group\u2019s chief, Mohamed Hamdan \u201cHemedti\u201d.<\/p>\n Turk urged countries with influence over the warring parties to halt arms flows and push for an immediate ceasefire.<\/p>\n \u201cHave we not learned our lessons from the past?\u201d he said. \u201cWe cannot stand idly by and allow more Sudanese to become victims of horrific human rights violations.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Rights chief fears another wave of violence similar to el-Fasher as death toll mounts across strategic region. The United Nations has warned that the Kordofan region of Sudan could face another wave of mass atrocities as fierce fighting between rival armed forces threatens a humanitarian catastrophe. 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