Eyewitness accounts from Darfur paint a harrowing picture of systematic detention, torture, and inhumane treatment in the aftermath of the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) takeover of El-Fasher in October 2025. Survivors describe being crammed into shipping containers, hospitals, and schools under brutal conditions that the UN has warned bear the…
The United Nations has warned that the killing of civilians in Sudan’s ongoing war more than doubled in 2025 compared with the previous year, with thousands more dead remaining unidentified or missing. Volker Turk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, addressed the alarming situation during a briefing to the UN…
A United Nations fact-finding mission has concluded that atrocities committed during the siege and eventual capture of El-Fasher, a key city in Sudan’s Darfur region, may amount to genocide. Findings of the Inquiry The investigation focused on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which seized El-Fasher in late October after an…
Port Sudan – Women have emerged as the primary victims of Sudan’s brutal war, enduring what rights activists describe as “the world’s worst” sexual violence, alongside other crimes committed with impunity. Since April 2023, the conflict between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed tens…
The United Nations’ top human rights body convened a one-day special session on Friday to spotlight the mass killings at a hospital in Sudan’s Darfur region and other atrocities reportedly committed last month by paramilitary forces in conflict with the army. During the session, the Human Rights Council debated a…
Thousands of civilians remain trapped and in grave danger in El-Fasher, western Sudan, after the city’s fall to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The humanitarian organization described the situation as dire, while Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul called it “apocalyptic” amid mounting reports of…
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on Sunday that it has taken control of the army’s 6th Division Headquarters in El-Fasher, the last major stronghold of government forces in the Darfur region a development that could significantly alter the course of Sudan’s ongoing civil war. In a statement posted…
The United Nations has sounded the alarm over intensifying violence in El-Fasher, Sudan’s besieged city, where at least 91 civilians were killed in a series of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks between September 19 and 29, 2025. According to UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk, the city’s Daraja Oula neighborhood…