Ethnically-driven killings in Sudan's war have jumped this year, UN says

FILE PHOTO: A view of a burned building and the tail of a Sudan Airways aircraft amid debris at Khartoum Airport, after the Sudanese army deepened its control over Khartoum from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in Khartoum Sudan April 26, 2025. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) - Sudan has seen a significant rise in civilian killings during the first half of this year due to growing ethnic violence, largely in the western region of Darfur, the U.N. human rights office said on Friday.

The conflict that erupted in Sudan in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has unleashed waves of ethnically-driven killings, caused mass displacement and created what the U.N. has called the world's worst humanitarian crisis.