UN condemns attack on key Sudanese city

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🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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The UN’s top humanitarian official has said there must be accountability for those carrying out the killings and sexual violence in Sudan's El-Fasher. Tom Fletcher said people who wanted to leave the city, which was seized by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces at the weekend, must be allowed to do so safely, and those who remained must be protected. The leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has declared an investigation into what he called violations committed by his soldiers, but denies accusations they massacred hundreds of civilians at a hospital in El-Fasher on Tuesday. Also: Jamaica counts the cost of Hurricane Melissa; five more suspects are being questioned by police in Paris after they were arrested in connection with this month's robbery at the Louvre museum in the French capital; the Netherlands swings to the centre in elections at the expense of the far-right Freedom party; and Universal Music Group has struck an unprecedented licensing deal with an artificial intelligence music generation startup to launch an AI creation platform.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.6	This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.
0:10.5	I'm Alex Ritson, and on Thursday the 30th of October, these are our main stories.
0:16.2	The leader of Sudan's paramilitary RSF promises an investigation after acknowledging abuses by his forces in El Fasher.
0:24.0	The US-Trina trade war appears to be de-escalating after what President Trump said was an amazing meeting with President Xi in South Korea
0:32.2	and new arrests in France over the audacious jewel heist at the Louvre in Paris.
0:39.5	Also in this podcast.
0:41.6	Hospitals destroyed libraries, police station, courthouses.
0:46.1	So the south-east, south-western end of the island has had serious devastation.
0:51.3	Jamaica counts the cost of Hurricane Melissa.
0:57.0	Civilians who fled El Fasca in Western Sudan have said that children were killed in front of their parents,
1:02.8	as bodies lay in the streets and families hid in trenches when the paramilitary rapid support
1:07.8	forces took control of the city on Sunday.
1:10.3	The RSF captured the Sudanese army's last stronghold in the region of Darfur.
1:14.9	Caroline Buvar, the Sudan country director of the aid group Solidarity International,
1:20.7	told the BBC that some people have fled to the nearby town of Tawila.
1:25.1	They're highly malnourished, highly dehydrated.
1:27.5	Many of them are sick or injured, and they're clearly traumatized with what they've
1:31.9	seen, either in the city or on the road.
1:34.4	And we believe that actually many people are stuck currently in a different location
1:39.3	between Tarwila and Elfashir and unable to move forward, either because of the physical condition
1:45.2	or because of the insecurity on the road where militias are unfortunately attacking people
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