The UN rights council on Monday ordered an "urgent inquiry" into violations and abuses in the Sudanese city of El-Obeid, warning of the looming risk of "large-scale atrocities". In a resolution adopted by consensus, the 47-member council voiced "deep concern about the imminent risk of large-scale atrocities" in El-Obeid, calling on an independent UN fact-finding mission to conduct "an urgent inquiry into any violations and abuses of international... law and related to international crimes" allegedly committed there.
