Amnesty urges UN to extend Darfur arms embargo to all of Sudan

A woman and her baby at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, in January 2024. © Reuters/Mohamed Zakaria

The NGO Amnesty International has called on the United Nations to extend the arms embargo on Darfur to the rest of Sudan.

The 15-month war between Sudan's regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces "is being fuelled by an almost unimpeded supply of weapons into Sudan by states and corporate actors around the world," the rights watchdog said in their report.