France, Nov. 4 -- French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has called for a ceasefire between the warring parties in Sudan, with Paris denouncing the ethnic nature of the abuses attributed to the RSF paramilitaries, particularly in the flashpoint city of El-Fasher.

"For the past few days, the situation has been worsening in Sudan with the fall of the city of El-Fasher in Darfur and with the fear, fuelled by a number of facts that seem to be established, of major abuses affecting tens of thousands of innocent people," French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot told the press on Monday.

"Both belligerents must cease fire and comply with international humanitarian law to definitively end this tragedy," he insisted.

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