UK, Germany & Jordan Demand Immediate Ceasefire in Sudan as Darfur Faces “Apocalyptic” Atrocities

The United Kingdom, Germany, and Jordan have jointly urged an immediate ceasefire in Sudan following reports that a paramilitary group has captured the last major city in Darfur.

According to United Nations officials, fighters from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have stormed the city of el-Fasher, allegedly massacring more than 450 people inside a hospital and carrying out ethnically targeted killings and sexual assaults against civilians.

Although the RSF denies involvement in the hospital killings, eyewitness accounts, satellite imagery, and videos circulating online indicate widespread atrocities and possible mass executions in the city.

Speaking at the Manama Dialogue security summit in Bahrain, UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper condemned the international community’s failure to act decisively on Sudan, comparing it to recent progress seen in Gaza.

She described the situation as “truly horrifying,” citing “mass executions, starvation, and the brutal use of rape as a weapon of war,” with women and children suffering most in what she called “the largest humanitarian crisis of the 21st century.” Cooper stressed that “no amount of aid can solve a catastrophe of this scale until the fighting stops.”

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul also denounced the RSF’s actions in el-Fasher, calling the situation in Sudan “utterly apocalyptic.”

Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi added that Sudan has been largely overlooked by the world, despite enduring “a humanitarian crisis of unimaginable scale,” and emphasized the urgent need to end the violence.