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The UN finds atrocities committed in Sudan show the “hallmarks of genocide”.  

The acts committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during the 18-month siege and eventual fall of the Sudanese city el-Fasher included starvation, mass killings, rape and torture - which the report said was intended to destroy non-Arab communities.

The fall of el-Fasher - in October - was one of the most brutal chapters in Sudan's nearly three-year civil war. The UN believes the RSF killed at least 6,000 people in the first 72 hours of their takeover.

A group at Yale played a significant role in the latest UN findings.

• Guest: Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health
• Producer: Pip Cook