RSF Paramilitary Massacres Civilians After Seizing El-Fasher in Sudan

After an 18‑month siege, Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized El‑Fasher and unleashed mass violence against civilians.

“Sudanese people are being hunted down, humiliated and killed by RSF fighters, according to survivors and aid agencies”

Al Jazeera

Multiple sources detail ethnic targeting, blockades, and killings during the takeover.

Al Jazeera

France 24 reports the RSF captured El‑Fasher in Darfur, ending an 18‑month siege and imposed a blockade trapping about 177,000 civilians without food, medicine, or escape.

This takeover is effectively splitting the country.

NBC News describes the Biden administration labeling RSF actions as genocide amid the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

Around 250,000 people are trapped behind a sand barrier, and tens of thousands have reportedly been killed in the past week alone.

Democracy Now! also characterizes the siege as genocidal, citing mass atrocities including the killing of at least 2,000 people.

West Asian outlets provide detailed accounts of abuses and flight.

Al Jazeera reports beatings, sexual violence, and ransom demands by RSF, along with survivors’ testimonies of gender- and ethnicity-based separation.

Türkiye Today states the city’s fall escalated from conflict to a systematic massacre.

Evidence from UN agencies, aid groups, and independent researchers indicates systematic massacres in and around El-Fasher.

Daily News Egypt cites Yale imagery revealing ongoing mass killings, with human bodies scattered across the city.

Al Jazeera

The UN rights office warns that hundreds of civilians and detainees may have been killed.

Newsweek details the siege’s brutality, including about 460 patients and companions at the Saudi Maternity Hospital.

There are reports of executions, torture, sexual violence, and satellite images confirming systematic hospital bombings.

NBC News reinforces the scale of violence, noting imagery comparable to the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

Al Jazeera adds survivor accounts of gender- and ethnicity-based separation.

Reports state that RSF chief Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has publicly urged protection of civilians and promised prosecutions, claims widely met with skepticism.

The humanitarian fallout is extreme, including massive displacement, famine conditions, disease, and shortages for those trapped by RSF blockades.

“Communications have been cut off in El Fasher amid ongoing clashes between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, creating a chaotic situation”

Al-Jazeera Net

The International Rescue Committee notes that over 12 million people have been displaced, marking the largest and fastest displacement crisis globally.

Famine conditions are affecting over 24 million people, alongside a cholera outbreak.

France 24 reports that El-Fasher’s blockade is trapping about 177,000 civilians without food, medicine, or means of escape.

NBC News cites around 250,000 people trapped behind siege lines.

On sudden flight, Al-Jazeera Net says approximately 36,000 civilians have fled the city since last Sunday.

Daily News Egypt similarly reports over 36,000 people fleeing El-Fasher in just a few days.

Democracy Now! adds that Western funding cuts are strangling aid amid what it calls the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

External actors and arms flows are repeatedly cited as drivers of the carnage around El-Fasher.

NBC News reports the Sudanese military has filed a genocide case against the UAE at the International Court of Justice, alleging Abu Dhabi supplied the RSF with weapons.

Al-Jazeera Net

Democracy Now! says the UAE is supplying advanced weapons to the RSF even as it sits in the U.S.-backed Quad.

The Eastleigh Voice provides a local UK lens with photographs of UAE-made armored personnel carriers with British engines captured from RSF bases and faults inadequate monitoring of UK exports.

The Telegraph situates this in a broader proxy contest, with leaked reports suggesting the UAE supports the RSF, while Iran and Turkey back the Sudanese military.

Tag24 highlights U.S. lawmakers pushing the Stand Up for Sudan Act to halt arms to the UAE over RSF genocidal violence.

Political fallout from El-Fasher’s fall points to deepening fragmentation and grim peace prospects.

“The article details the ongoing conflict in Sudan, sparked by a violent power struggle since April 2023 between the national army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)”

BBC

France 24 reports the RSF declared a rival government, with experts seeing little willingness to negotiate and doubting any near-term ceasefire.

BBC

The report warns that the takeover is effectively splitting the country.

Daily News Egypt underscores fears of division between RSF-held west and army-held east and notes the UN Security Council condemned the RSF offensive.

Al-Jazeera Net says the UN called for independent investigations as communications collapse and Sudan’s army chief plans to abandon El Fasher after widespread destruction.

Al Jazeera highlights aid agencies’ calls for international intervention and records skepticism of RSF promises to prosecute abuses.

Together, these accounts portray a landscape of ethnic massacres, siege-driven starvation, and governance fracture with no credible ceasefire on the horizon.