UN rights council adopts fact-finding mission in emergency session on Sudan


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  • Friday, 14 Nov 2025

FILE PHOTO: Displaced Sudanese gather after fleeing Al-Fashir city in Darfur, in Tawila, Sudan, October 29, 2025, in this still image taken from a Reuters' video. REUTERS/Mohamed Jamal/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) -Members of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday adopted a resolution for an independent fact-finding mission to investigate reported mass killings in al-Fashir, Sudan.

At a special session of the Council in Geneva on the situation in the city in Darfur which fell to paramilitary forces in October, the text passed without a vote - a strong sign of international support.

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