UN Report on Hallmarks of Genocide in Sudan

 The UN Human Rights Council published on 8 July 2026 a 26-page report titled "Information Supplementing the Report 'Sudan: Hallmarks of Genocide in El Fasher'."

This report provides detailed references not included in the initial 19 February 2026 report and additional information that the UN Human Rights Council gathered following continued investigations since the publication of the original report.  

It also helps develop the legal basis for the conclusions that were drawn in the original report, that the mass killings and related atrocities committed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in and around El Fasher were indicators of a genocidal path.

UN Report Suggests Rapid Support Forces Genocide in Sudan

 UN News published on 19 February 2026 an article titled "Sudan: 'Hallmarks of Genocide' Found in El Fasher, UN Investigators Detail Mass Killings and Ethnic Targeting" by Vibhu Mishra.

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out ethnically targeted killings, widespread sexual violence, and enforced disappearance during their late-October takeover of El Fasher in Sudan's Darfur Region.  They committed three underlying acts of genocide, which is the only reasonable inference you can take from the RSF killings.  

Extra-judicial Killings in Ethiopia's Oromia Region

 Reuters published on 23 February 2024 an investigative report titled "In Ethiopia, A Secret Committee Orders Killings and Arrests to Crush Rebels" by Giulia Paravicini.

Following interviews with more than 30 officials, judges, lawyers, and victims in Oromia region, a Reuters' investigation concluded that a secretive committee known as Koree Nageenyaa has ordered extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions to crush an insurgency led by the Oromo Liberation Army.  

The Horrors of Eritrea's Prison System

 The Washington Post published on 6 January 2024 an article titled "An African Gulag So Ghastly that Inmates Risk Death to Escape" by Katharine Houreld.

Based on interviews with former prisoners, many of whom were trying to avoid Eritrean National Service, the article describes the conditions in Eritrea's extensive prison system, which are said to be deplorable.

Past Use of Torture in Ethiopia

Ethiopia Insight published on 2 July 2019 an article titled "Moving on from Ethiopia's Torturous Past" by Felix Horne, Human Rights Watch.

This is an account of the use of torture in Ethiopia's past.

Kenya: The Error of Fighting Terror with Terror

The state-funded Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) published in September 2015 a report titled "The Error of Fighting Terror with Terror."  The report documents over 120 cases of egregious human rights violations that include 25 extrajudicial killings and 81 enforced disappearances.  The violations are widespread, systematic and well-coordinated.  Most of them are aimed at the Somali population in response to terrorist attacks waged by Somalia-based al-Shabaab against innocent Kenyan civilians.  The report emphasizes that this is not the way to solve the problem posed by al-Shabaab.

Eritrea Rejects Devastating UN Human Rights Report

The UN Human Rights Council released on 5 June 2015 the lengthy "Report of the Detailed Findings of the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea."  The Commission concluded that systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations have been and are being committed in Eritrea under the authority of the Eritrean government.  

The Eritrean foreign ministry declared the UN report was "totally unfounded and without merit" and said it constituted "extreme charges and indecent hyperbole" according to a 10 June 2015 report by Reuters.