US EditionAttack on MSF hospital in South Sudan was deliberate, U.N rights commission says
- The United Nations body monitoring human rights in South Sudan denounced the South Sudan People's Defense Forces for launching an aerial attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Fangak county on 4 May 2025.
- The attack occurred amid escalating ethnic profiling, unlawful detentions, political tension, and the government designating Fangak as hostile by ethnicity, mostly populated by Nuer people.
- The bombing destroyed the hospital, killed at least seven people, and injured 20, further disrupting Fangak's already limited health care and isolating its 100,000 residents from medical supplies.
- UN Commissioner Barney Afako asserted the attack was intentional and described it as an atrocity crime that could amount to a war crime, with reports noting the strike was by two helicopter gunships.
- The Commission warns that the bombing, combined with renewed hostilities and threats from military leadership, risks pushing South Sudan closer to a renewed full-scale civil war.
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Attack on MSF hospital in South Sudan was deliberate, U.N rights commission says
A bombing attack on a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital and pharmacy in South Sudan over the weekend was deliberate and may amount to a war crime, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said on Tuesday.
UN Commission says bombing of Doctors Without Borders hospital in South Sudan may constitute war crime
The UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan condemned an aerial bombing of a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in the Fangak county by the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces (SSPDF) as an atrocity crime on Tuesday. According to MSF, two helicopter gunships carried out the strike which obliterated the hospital on Sunday, 4 May 2025. The attack left at least seven dead and 20 injured. including patients in critical condition and MSF car…
Attack on MSF hospital in South Sudan was deliberate, UN rights commission says
NAIROBI: A bombing attack on a Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital and pharmacy in South Sudan over the weekend was deliberate and may amount to a war crime, the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said on Tuesday. MSF said on Saturday that at least seven people had been killed and 20 wounded in South Sudan’s Fangak county when a bomb was dropped on the pharmacy,
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