Shelling killed at least 21 people at a market in southeast Sudan on Sunday, September 8, 2024, a day after the country's rulers rejected a call by UN experts for an independent force to protect civilians from the devastating civil war.

Sudan has rejected a call by United Nations experts for the deployment of an "independent and impartial force" to protect millions of civilians driven from their homes by more than a year of war. Since April 2023,

Sudan's military-led government has rejected a call by a UN fact-finding mission for the deployment of an international force to protect civilians from the country’s ongoing civil war. Sudan’s warring parties had committed "harrowing" human rights violations against civilians,

Shelling killed at least 21 people at a market in southeast Sudan Sunday, a day after the country's rulers rejected a call by UN experts for an independent force to

Sudanese officials have refused the interference of the United Nations (UN) in its ongoing conflict, despite the aid to civilians it promises. According to the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for the Sudan report released on Friday,