US EditionHundreds Killed in Sudan after El Fasher Captured by RSF Militia
- On October 26, 2025, the Rapid Support Forces seized El Fasher, North Darfur’s provincial capital after an 18-month siege and took over the military garrison hosting the Sudanese Armed Forces' 6th infantry division and the city’s airport.
- The war began in April 2023 when tensions between the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces flared, and in recent months the RSF dug a trench and built a sand berm encircling El Fasher, blocking aid.
- The Sudan Doctors Network said RSF fighters `cold-bloodedly killed everyone they found inside the Saudi Hospital, including patients, their companions, and anyone else present in the wards.`
- This past week the U.N. migration agency said about 35,000 people fled El Fasher since Sunday, while Volker Türk, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, warned the risk of atrocities is mounting.
- Over 14 million people have fled their homes as the conflict continues, the U.N. says the war has killed over 40,000 people, and both sides face International Criminal Court investigations.
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Mass Killings Reported in Sudan as RSF Seizes El Fasher; 460 Killed at Hospital
Sudan’s military is accusing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of killing at least 2,000 people since seizing control of El Fasher in the Darfur region, including some 460 at the Saudi Maternity Hospital. Meanwhile, tens of thousands have fled. “What’s happening is no less than a … campaign of destruction and annihilation,” says Mathilde Vu, Sudan advocacy manager at the Norwegian Refugee Council, speaking to Democracy Now! from Kenya. What’…
Sudan satellite images show stains resembling blood
Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the city of Al-Fashir in Sudan by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in a two-day window after the paramilitary group captured the regional capital, analysts say. Stains and shapes resembling blood and bodies can be seen from space in satellite images analysed by the Yale Humanitarian Labs. NBC News has not been able to independently verify the report.
Report documents mass killings and ethnic cleansing, two days after rebels took the town of El Fasher in Darfur. DR correspondent is shocked.
Sudan doctors say 2,000 killed, some burned alive in El Fasher
October 29, 2025 (KHARTOUM) – A Sudanese doctors’ union said on Wednesday that 2,000 civilians were killed, some of them burned alive, in the first hours after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured North Darfur’s capital, El Fasher.
After the complete capture of the Sudanese region of Darfur by the RSF militia, the atrocities continue in the city of Al-Fashir. According to the World Health Organization, more than 460 people were killed in attacks on a hospital.
WHO condemns violence amid escalating crisis in North Darfur's El Fasher
The World Health Organization (WHO) condemns the reported killing of more than 460 patients and their companions, as well as the abduction of six health workers, on 28 October from the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El Fasher.
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