US EditionSudan: RSF Claims Control of North Darfur's El Fasher
The Rapid Support Forces killed former MP Siham Hassan and looted medical centers amid ethnic cleansing; 260,000 civilians remain trapped without aid, rights groups say.
- On Sunday, the Rapid Support Forces announced they had taken control of El-Fasher after a siege lasting over a year, calling it a pivotal victory with Abdelrahim Dagalo celebrating.
- Since April 2023, El-Fasher has been a major flashpoint and the last city under Sudanese army control, with residents stalked by drones and around 30 dying daily from violence and hunger earlier this month.
- Siham Hassan, a former MP, was among those executed as the Rapid Support Forces carried out over a dozen field executions, displacing at least 2,500 civilians on Sunday.
- A joint UN statement released last week warned 260,000 civilians, including 130,000 children, remain trapped and cut off from aid amid blocked escape routes and heavy shelling.
- On Monday, the Sudanese Doctors Network said RSF looted medical facilities and called killings a 'heinous massacre' and ethnic cleansing, while the Popular Resistance stated, 'The entry of the Rapid Support Forces into the Sixth Division's headquarters does not mean control of the city.
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The government army must retreat from the RSF rebels. Suffering from the war is once again the population.
The militia Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has declared that they have taken full control of the city of El Fascher in the east of the country. Experts and diplomats warn against massive violence against civilians.
Sudan: RSF Claims Control of North Darfur's El Fasher
El Fasher / Bara / Nyala / El Obeid -- The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced that after capturing the headquarters of the Sixth Infantry Division, one of the Sudanese Armed Forces' (SAF) key bases in western Sudan, they had taken full control of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, on Sunday.
The rebels of the Sudan Rapid Support Forces took control on Sunday of the strategic headquarters of El Fasher, the capital of Northern Darfur and the last large bastion retained by the army in the Darfur region, in the west of the country, since the beginning of the civil war two and a half years ago.The progress of these paramilitaries comes after, in recent months, they intensified their siege of the city, where some 260,000 people, half of t…
The capture of the city of Al Fashar by the paramilitary RSF marks a new low point in the war in Sudan. What began as a local power struggle now threatens to definitively divide the country.
Sudan’s RSF in execution spree in El-Fasher including woman MP
Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have carried out over a dozen field executions in El-Fasher in recent days, local media reported, with one of those killed being Siham Hassan, a former member of parliament. The RSF announced on Sunday evening that they had taken control of El-Fasher, the capital of north Darfur state in western Sudan, following a siege that lasted over a year. El-Fasher was the last major city in Darfur under Sudanese army con…
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