UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has called for a ceasefire in Sudan, adding that civilians' right to seek safety must be respected.
"Reports from El Fasher in Sudan are terrible: deadly attacks on civilians, horrifying accounts of ethnic targeting, people too fearful of checkpoints to even flee!" Grandi said on X on Thursday.
"Deliberate violence on civilians must stop. Their right to seek safety must be respected," he said, adding: "Ceasefire is needed now!"
According to the UN human rights office, at least 58 civilians are reported to have been killed and 213 others injured in El-Fasher since fighting dramatically escalated in the North Darfur town earlier in May.
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