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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Sudanese flee massacres in the city of Al-Fashir. A first aider in nearby Tawila reports a humanitarian disaster.
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’s
Sudanese paramilitary leader acknowledges genocide in El Fasher
Dagalo, head of the so-called Rapid Support Forces (RSF), announced on the Telegram platform the creation of an investigative committee to punish those responsible. Local media highlighted that according to the United Nations (UN), RSF fighters killed hundreds of people, including patients in a hospital, after seizing the city in West Darfur over the weekend. The paramilitaries took El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, a city considered the a…
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.
RSF militias have killed more than 460 people, and are doing massacres and violence throughout the city after they have conquered it.
Report documents mass killings and ethnic cleansing, two days after rebels took the town of El Fasher in Darfur. DR correspondent is shocked.
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