# The risk of genocide in Sudan’s devastating civil war remains “very high”, amid ongoing ethnically motivated attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Since April 2023, Sudan has been torn apart by a power struggle between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. A UN under secretary-general and acting special advisor to UN chief Antonio Guterres on the prevention of genocide, Virginia Gamba, says of specific concern to her mandate is the continued and targeted attacks against certain ethnic groups, particularly in the Darfur and Kordofan regions.
Top UN official says risk of genocide in Sudan remains ‘very high’