US EditionSudan: Atrocities 'Repeated Town By Town', ICC Prosecutor Tells UN Security Council
- On January 19, 2026, ICC Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan briefed the United Nations Security Council by video link, assessing war crimes in el-Fasher after a prolonged Rapid Support Forces siege and advancing investigations in el-Geneina since 2023.
- What began in April 2023 as a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces metastasised across Darfur, with a roughly 18-month RSF siege culminating in el-Fasher's fall last year.
- Evidence indicates patterns similar to el-Geneina in 2023 where the ICC collected video, audio and satellite imagery showing detention, abuse, executions, mass graves and attempts to conceal killings, with footage showing RSF fighters celebrating and desecrating corpses.
- The ICC said it is preparing arrest-warrant applications and Khan urged Sudanese authorities to surrender Omar al-Bashir, Ahmed Haroun, and Abdel Raheem Muhammad Hussein, noting Haroun faces 20 counts and 22 war-crimes charges and escaped prison in 2023.
- Fighting has killed thousands and displaced nearly 13 million people, and the ICC is prioritising gender-based crimes while warning impunity will fuel ongoing atrocities.
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'The evidence shows that the patterns of atrocities in El Geneina in 2023 have been replicated in El Fasher in 2025,' says deputy prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan - Anadolu Ajansı
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