Civilians in Sudan are increasingly being targeted in the battle for supremacy between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has warned.

The United Nations human rights chief warned on Friday that the war in Sudan is becoming "more dangerous" for civilians, following reports alleging that army-allied militias have been carrying out ethnic-based attacks on minorities.

The United Nations, UN, High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, has said that the conflict in Sudan is taking an more dangerous turn for

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,

The United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk warned Friday that the war in Sudan is becoming "more dangerous" for civilians. The statement follows reports from rights groups of army-allied militias carrying out ethnic-based attacks on minorities in the state of Al-Jazira.

The conflict in Sudan is becoming increasingly lethal for the civilian population, UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Türk said in Geneva on Friday. Türk pointed to reports that dozens had been killed in ethnically targeted attacks in the south-eastern state of al-Jazirah and to an imminent battle for control of Khartoum.