25 h. ago At least 36,000 Sudanese have fled since fall of El Fasher to RSF, says UN agency

International Organization for Migration says refugees are heading to Tawila, which is already sheltering 652,000 displaced peopleMore than 36,000 people have fled Sudan’s Kordofan region east of Darfur since Saturday, the UN’s migration agency has said, a week after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control of the city of El Fasher.The strategic central area between the country’s Darfur provinces and the Khartoum-Riverine region that includes the capital to the east, has in recent weeks become the latest battleground in the two-year civil war between the Sudanese armed forces (SAF) and the paramilitary group. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community actsIt unfolded in plain sight over 18 months. The city of El Fasher in the Darfur region of Sudan, besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), fell to the militia group last week, and what has followed is a catastrophe.Mass killings are under way. There are reports that in one maternity hospital alone almost 500 people – patients and their families – were killed. The few that managed to escape tell of summary executions of civilians. The RSF has embarked on a killing spree of civilians so severe that images of blood saturating the ground have been picked up by satellite. The speed and intensity of the killings in the immediate aftermath of the fall of El Fasher has already been compared by war monitors to the first 24 hours of the Rwandan genocide. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago Horror as ‘hundreds’ of people rounded up and shot as city falls to paramilitaries in Sudan

Rapid Support Forces in Sudan have captured the city of al-Fashir

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66 h. ago Yvette Cooper slams world's failure to grasp deadly conflict in Sudan

Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper condemned horrific scenes in the Darfur region after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control of the city of el-Fasher om Sudan

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2 d. ago Horror as ‘hundreds’ of people round up and shot as city falls to paramilitaries in Sudan

Rapid Support Forces in Sudan have captured the city of al-Fashir

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3 d. ago A Sudanese massacre foretold: the grim familiarity of the RSF’s rampage through El Fasher

Atrocities unfolding in El Fasher since it fell to paramilitary forces follow a bleak pattern seen in Rwanda, Liberia and Sudan itself, including lack of international actionHundreds of patients and staff massacred at a hospital; unarmed men of fighting age separated and shot at close range; civilians trying to flee stripped of their belongings and extorted for ransom; perpetrators filming much of the violence themselves.The reports of atrocities that have emerged from the Sudanese city of El Fasher since it fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces last weekend follow a familiar pattern. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Sudanese warlord dubbed 'Butcher of the Century' arrested for his atrocities after posting TikToks of him committing brutal executions and boasting of killing more than 2,000 civilians

The sadistic fighter is one of several paramilitaries accused of abuses during the capture of the city of el-Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

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6 d. ago The massacre visible from space: Satellite images show pools of blood and scattered bodies at Sudanese city where 2,000 were executed in 48 hours

The satellite images also captured piles of bodies, of mainly women and children, who were tragically targeted during the two-day ethnic purge after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces.

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7 d. ago More than 2,000 civilians, mainly women and children, are executed in 48 hours as Sudanese city is captured by paramilitary group

The western Sudanese city of El-Fasher fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after more than 18 months of brutal siege warfare.

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8 d. ago Grave fears for civilians after Sudanese paramilitary claims capture of El Fasher

RSF says it has seized control of army’s main base in Darfur, home to famine-stricken displacement campFears are growing for hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in El Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said it had captured the city, which it has been besieging for more than a year in Sudan’s civil war.The group said on Sunday that it had seized control of the army’s main base in the city in Darfur, where famine was declared in a displacement camp last year. It then released a statement saying it had “extended control over the city of El Fasher from the grip of mercenaries and militias”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Thousands trapped in El Fasher siege on ‘edge of survival’, says report

The city – the Sudanese army’s last stronghold in the west of the country – has withstood more than 500 days of attacks by paramilitary RSFThe besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher has been declared “uninhabitable” with new data indicating most homes are destroyed and critical levels of malnourishment among people trapped there.The stark assessment comes as the city endures constant artillery and drone attacks, shoehorning its 250,000 starving people into a shrinking urban enclave. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Militia drone strike kills at least 30 in Sudan displacement camp, says El Fasher group

RSF paramilitary group hit Dar al-Arqam shelter on university grounds in western city, says resistance committeeA militia drone strike has killed at least 30 people at a displacement shelter in the besieged city of El Fasher in western Sudan, a local activist group said.The Resistance Committee for El Fasher said the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group hit the Dar al-Arqam displacement centre, which is in the grounds of a university. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘I have searched and searched for help’: the Sudanese women left alone to live hand to mouth in Chad’s desert camps

As the war in Sudan pushes more people across the border, malnutrition is on the rise in Chad’s remote settlements where 86% of the refugees are women and childrenFor hours, jolting along the waterlogged dirt track to the hospital, 18-year-old Makka Ibraheem Mohammed held on tight to her seat and focused on stopping herself vomiting. She was in labour, in extreme pain after her uterus ruptured, but was now being tossed around in the ambulance that jumped along the dips and bumps of the road through the Chadian desert.Most of the 878,000 Sudanese refugees who have fled to Chad since 2023, living hand to mouth in this harsh landscape, are women. They stay in isolated camps in the desert with limited water and food, no work and with medical help often a life-threateningly long distance away. Continue reading...

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