On 18 June the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ⁠⁠Volker Türk warned that the RSF's impending offensive against El Obeid under siege for 18 months could repeat the sort of mass casualties and humanitarian disaster triggered by the militia's 2024-2025 offensive against El Geneina the capital of North Darfur which was reckoned to have killed at least 15 000 civilians forcing tens of thousands more to flee the city (Dispatches 23/2/26 UN says Hemeti's RSF committed genocide in siege of El Fasher)...

This follows a slew of other warnings: the 2018 peace agreement is under ‘severe strain' the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on 27 February...

Calls for Ethiopia and Eritrea to de-escalate tensions in Tigray came from UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk on 10 February but from African leaders who have far more to lose from yet another conflagration in the Horn...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights commissioner Volker Türk warned that ‘the risk of violence escalating throughout the sub-region has never been higher'...

When UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called for investigations into massacres attributed to government security forces as well as those blamed on terrorist groups demonstrators were soon out on the streets of Ouagadougou chanting: ‘Down with the UN...