Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide

Sudan solidarity activists protesting at the UAE’s alleged role in the civil war in Sudan at a protest outside the US embassy in London last year. Photograph: Mark Kerrison/In Pictures/Getty

Warnings of a possible “genocide” in Sudan were removed from a UK risk assessment by Foreign Office officials, according to a whistleblower whose testimony raises fresh concern over British failures to act on the atrocities unfolding in the war-ravaged country.

The threat analyst said they were prevented from warning that genocide could occur in Darfur by Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) officials in a risk assessment collated days after Sudan’s brutal civil war erupted in April 2023.