US EditionHundreds Killed in Sudan after El Fasher Captured by RSF Militia
- This past week the WHO said nearly 500 civilians, including patients and companions, were shot dead at the last partially functioning hospital in el-Fasher as the Rapid Support Forces seized control of the city.
- Besieged since May 2024, el-Fasher was a major flashpoint after fighting began in April 2023, while the Rapid Support Forces restricted humanitarian aid, causing starvation and worsening conditions.
- Satellite imagery and Yale analysis found clusters consistent with piles of bodies and BBC Verify geolocated clips showing summary shootings with men wearing RSF-style patches.
- More than 36,000 people have fled since Sunday, many heading for Tawila and the city's outskirts, while the United Nations Security Council is expected to meet amid rising warnings of ethnically-motivated violence, UN rights officials said.
- UN and investigative reports found British-made equipment in RSF hands Tuesday, while investigations indicate up to 90% of Sudan's gold flows to the United Arab Emirates.
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The armed attackers who killed at least 460 people at a hospital in Sudan carried out the attack in multiple waves, kidnapping doctors and paramedics and then killing staff, patients and people who had taken shelter there.
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The brutal civil war that has ravaged the East African nation of Sudan for the past two years took a dark and alarming turn this week. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces fighting against the Sudanese military assumed control of the North Darfur capital of el-Fasher. This capture comes as a growing chorus of international observers accuse the RSF of genocide and crimes against humanity, raising the prospect that the Sudan might once again spli…
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Cover image: picture alliance / REUTERS | El Tayeb Siddig A city and its people have held out for 18 months against an invading army. They have fought bravely against the odds, despite being almost starved into submission. Now, the defences have finally fallen, and all hell is being unleashed on the survivors. El-Fasher—a city in Darfur in western Sudan, where hundreds of thousands fled after the war broke out in April 2023—is now the site of th…
460 killed in horrific massacre in Sudan hospital, WHO says, amid RSF takeover
This story was originally published on Truthout on Oct. 29, 2025. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. Approximately 460 patients and their companions were killed in a horrific massacre at a hospital in el-Fasher, Sudan, on Tuesday, the UN reports, amid a takeover of the North Darfur capital by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) this week. The casualties are among the 2,000 people estimated by Sudanese officials to have…
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