Sudan - Security Council, 10109th meeting

Entering fourth year, Sudan’s brutal civil war hits ‘horrific milestone’, speakers tell Security Council, citing rising sexual violence, mass atrocities.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 02:43:20
• Production Date: 19 February 2026
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Personal Subject: ROSEMARY A. DICARLO; EDEM WOSORNU
• Corporate Name: DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND PEACEBUILDING AFFAIRS - DPPA
• Subject Topical: GENOCIDE; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; SANCTIONS; WOMEN; GIRLS; FINANCING; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; CIVILIAN PROTECTION; GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE; FOOD SECURITY; SEXUAL VIOLENCE; CIVIL WAR; ARMED FORCES; ARMS EMBARGO; SUDAN SITUATION
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 3537616
• Parent Id: 3536101
• Alternate Title: MTG SC 10109 SUDAN 19 FEB 2026 AM

Description

As Sudan marks “1,000 days of a brutal war,” the Security Council heard today that women and girls are enduring horrific sexual violence, as a civil society briefer issued a blunt warning: “Unless you act now, you will have more blood on your hands.”

“And as we near the fourth year of the war, the fighting continues to expand,” warned Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, in her briefing to the 15-member Council today.

She described a conflict marked by “staggering violence and unimaginable suffering” and total impunity for the perpetrators of a long list of atrocities and war crimes that has nearly destroyed Africa’s third-largest country.

Frontlines are shifting, she said, across North Darfur, North Kordofan, South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, with military activity, including drone attacks, putting civilians at great risk. North Kordofan’s capital, El Obeid, is besieged from three sides by the Rapid Support Forces, also known as the RSF.

• Briefer: Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
• Briefer: Edem Wosornu, Director of the Crisis Response Division in the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
• Briefer: Hala Alkarib, Regional Director of the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa

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