Sudan's military-led government has rejected a call by a UN fact-finding mission for the deployment of an international force to protect civilians from the country’s ongoing civil war. Sudan’s warring parties had committed "harrowing" human rights violations against civilians, the UN mission reported.

Sudan has rejected a call by UN experts for the deployment of an "independent and impartial force" to protect millions of civilians driven from their homes by more than a year of war.They called for "an independent and impartial force with a mandate to safeguard civilians" to be deployed "without delay".

U.N.-backed human rights investigators are urging the creation of an “independent and impartial force” to protect civilians in Sudan’s war