(Adnkronos) – Members of Italy’s lower house of parliament are set to question representatives of front-line charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) Wednesday on the situation in Sudan amid a two-and-half-year war between paramilitaries and the army.
The foreign affairs committee will question MSF representatives at a hearing slated for 1.45 pm “as part of a survey of Italy’s commitment to safeguarding human rights and fighting discrimination internationally,” the parliament’s lower house said in a statement.
The Sudan Doctors’ network on Sunday accused paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing genocide in Sudan’s northwest Darfur region, where the United Nations estimates 82,000 (close to a third of the population) have fled the city of El-Fasher amid reports of mass killings, rapes and torture.
Many El-Fasher residents are believed still to be trapped in the city and others to have died of injuries, hunger and thirst while trying to reach other locations.
