Children play in a returnee camp on the outskirts of Aweil in Northern Bar El Ghazal, Southern Sudan10 June 2011 The United Nations human rights office today said it had received “extremely worrying” reports of civilian casualties and massive displacement of people, amid deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the Sudanese state of Southern Kordofan, where forces of the northern and southern governments are engaged in fighting. “We call on all parties to the conflict to immediately stop the indiscriminate shelling, refrain from attacks on civilians and provide safe corridors for the safe passage of civilians, in line with international humanitarian and human rights law,” said Rupert…
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Sudan: UN reports ‘extremely worrying’ attacks on civilians in Southern Kordofan