The UN Security Council adopted a resolution requiring paramilitary forces to rapid support (SBP) in Sudan to immediately end the siege of El Fasher, the only capital in Sudan's vast Darfur region that it does not control, and where more than one million people are reportedly stranded, the Associated Press reported, citing BTA.
The British-sponsored resolution, which was approved by 14 votes in favour, with Russia abstaining, also called on the UN and the Sudanese military to "pursue an immediate cessation of hostilities" leading to a halt to the war lasting more than a year.
The resolution expresses "serious concern" of the widespread violence and credible reports that the paramilitary Rapid Support Force had committed "ethnically motivated violence" in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, as well as last year in the town of El Geneina in West Darfur.