warning that thousands more dead are unidentified or remain missing. Since April 2023, Sudan has been engulfed in a conflict between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that has killed tens of thousands, displaced 11 million people and triggered one of the world's worst humanitarian crises. "This war is ugly. It's bloody and it's senseless," Volker Turk told the UN  Human Rights Council, blaming both sides, which have so far rejected any humanitarian truce. He also blamed foreign sponsors funding what he called a "high-tech" conflict. "In 2025, my office's documentation points to an over two and a half times increase in killings of civilians compared with the previous year. Many thousands are still missing or unidentified," Turk said. There have been no official figures on the conflict's overall death toll. Turk condemned what he called the "heinous and ruthless" brutalities committed, including sexual violence, summary executions and arbitrary detentions. He highlighted the "carnage" inflicted by the RSF in an April attack on the Zamzam displacement camp and again in October in El Fasher, then the regular army's last foothold in western Darfur. Rape, gang rape, sexual torture and slavery have also surged, Turk said, with more than 500 victims documented in 2025. "The bodies of Sudanese women and girls have been weaponised to terrorise communities." (Bssnews)