“As the Sudanese Armed Forces [SAF] and Rapid Support Forces [RSF] battle for control at all costs in the senseless war that [has] raged for close to two years now, direct and ethnically motivated attacks on civilians are becoming increasingly common,” he said in a statement.

The chief spokesperson for the UN Human Rights Office, Ravina Shamdasani, cautioned of increasing civilian danger in Sudan due to targeted ethnic attacks in Al Jazirah, posing a threat to the ongoing conflict over Khartoum.

Sudan’s conflict is worsening, and the UN Human Rights Office chief Volker Türk says it is becoming even more dangerous for civilians after reports that dozens were brutally killed in ethnically targeted attacks in the southeastern state of Al Jazirah and amid reports of an imminent battle for control of the capital,

President Salva Kiir of South Sudan said what happened in Wad Madani was a heinous and "unacceptable" crime. He urged Sudan's government to protect South Sudanese citizens trapped there, and to investigate the killings with the help of international humanitarian organisations.

This week, the United States accused the RSF militia in Sudan’s brutal civil conflict of committing genocide. It’s the second time in two decades that genocide has been declared in the northeast African nation,

The United Nations said Wednesday that it was "shocked" at reports of ethnically targeted killings in Sudan's central Al-Jazira state and demanded an investigation.

Sudan is facing what the United Nations has described as an “unparalleled humanitarian disaster” with famine confirmed in multiple regions, even as it faces the risk of total destruction from war.

Some 3.2 million children are expected to face malnutrition in Sudan this year, the United Nations Children's Fund said Friday. Aid agencies have complained of lack of access to the war-torn

The United Nations warned Wednesday of retaliatory attacks against civilians in Sudan's Al-Jazira state, saying the reports raised "grave concerns about flagrant violations" of international law.

Sudan's army chief has ordered an investigation into allegations that his troops carried out widespread atrocities after recapturing the capital of Gezira state from their paramilitary rivals. Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan's move comes after widespread concern that civilians - including foreign nationals - were killed after the seizure of Wad Madani.

Sudan is facing a growing risk of widespread famine as a dire humanitarian crisis, fueled by conflict, has left an estimated 3.2 million children under five acutely malnourished, a UN official said on Friday.