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August 14, 2025

U.N. Security Council Rejects RSF's Declaration of Rival Government in Sudan
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The United Nations Security Council has repudiated a Sudanese
paramilitary group's declaration of an independent state in parts of
Sudan that it controls. On Wednesday, council members rejected the rival
government proposed by the Rapid Support Forces as a threat to Sudan's
territorial integrity, as well as regional stability. The council also
called on the RSF to lift its siege of El Fasher, capital of Sudan's
North Darfur state, where hundreds of thousands of people have been
displaced by fighting amid a growing hunger crisis and the spread of
diseases including cholera.


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