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El-Fasher Falls as RSF Siege Conducts Mass Killings and Starvation El-Fasher, once the vibrant capital of North Darfur, has fallen to Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), plunging the city into one of the most catastrophic chapters of the country’s war. After a 500-day siege that strangled food, water, and...

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El Fasher has been under siege for more than 18 months, and WFP says there are no indications that trade routes have reopened or that supplies have begun entering the city since the RSF takeover on October 26, 2025. At the time the city fell, an estimated 200,000 to 260,000 civilians were residing in El Fasher. WFP now estimates that 70,000 to 100,000 people remain trapped, while those who managed to flee are arriving in Tawila and other areas with little shelter, medicine, or clean water. Satellite imagery and survivor accounts from El Fasher point to mass killings, burned bodies, and abandoned markets across the city. WFP says it has no partners on the ground, no verified reports that community kitchens are operating, and that healthcare, markets, and basic services have been effectively obliterated. The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab has previously suggested a low estimate of 60,000 killed, with as many as 150,000 people unaccounted for. More than 650,000 people are now sheltering in Tawila, a former desert town about 60 kilometers west of El Fasher, overwhelmed by displacement from El Fasher and Zamzam camp. Many families are living in makeshift grass or straw shelters, disease outbreaks including cholera are spreading, and humanitarian assistance is failing to keep pace with the scale of need. WFP says it now has an agreement in principle with the RSF to enter El Fasher for initial assessments and route reconnaissance, noting that only once access is secured will the scale of civilian harm and destruction after more than 18 months of siege begin to become clear.

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💢 Thousands Killed, Women Systematically Raped as RSF Seized Sudan’s El Fasher, Joint Investigation Finds A joint investigation and documentary film by Sudan War Monitor, Lighthouse Reports, and Al Jazeera Fault Lines has reconstructed the fall of El Fasher — capital of North Darfur — documenting systematic massacres, mass rape, and the deliberate use of a trench encircling the city to trap and kill fleeing civilians during the Rapid Support Forces’ seizure of the city on October 26, 2025. UN data indicates at least 6,000 people were killed in the first three days of the RSF’s entry into the city. RSF commanders and other sources cited in the investigation put the death toll above 10,000. One witness who helped collect bodies said he and others buried approximately 4,000 corpses — all in civilian clothing — including women found dead alongside infants believed to have died of thirst after their mothers were killed. Survivors described checkpoints between El Fasher and the Qarni gate where RSF fighters looted, beat, and raped civilians attempting to flee. Women were held in detention facilities and subjected to sexual slavery. The investigation also documents RSF forces using schools as detention sites, where girls were taken one by one and raped. RSF deputy commander Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo is identified by witnesses as having personally led fighters pursuing civilians through the trench.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🎥 Clip from the film below. The movie is linked below.

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⭕️ NEW: The UN carried out its first assessment mission in more than a year to El Fasher in western Sudan on Friday, marking the first confirmed entry by UN staff into the besieged city after roughly 20 months of near-total siege and 17 months under famine conditions. The visit followed what UN OCHA described as “extensive humanitarian negotiations,” amid months of intense fighting, siege, and widespread violations against civilians and aid workers. UN officials stressed that the mission was an assessment only, not the start of sustained aid access, and said unimpeded humanitarian entry remains critical. U.S. senior adviser Boulos said the access was the result of U.S.-facilitated diplomacy, praising the role of Washington and humanitarian partners and expressing hope that aid convoys would “regularly reach El Fasher” going forward. UN officials, however, emphasized that continued access is not guaranteed and will depend on the cooperation of the warring parties. El Fasher was the last major city in North Darfur to fall to the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces in late October 2025, after months of siege despite repeated warnings to the UN and U.S. Researchers from Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab say satellite imagery shows widespread mass killings and ongoing body disposal consistent with large-scale atrocities. British MPs were briefed that between 60,000–100,000 people may have been murdered during the takeover and its immediate aftermath, with hundreds of thousands missing or unaccounted for. 🎥 Video: Yale researcher Nathaniel Raymond explains how his team’s warnings of the eventual mass ethnic cleansing massacre in El-Fasher fell on deaf ears with U.S. officials and at the U.N.

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🚨BREAKING: Yale researchers assess RSF carried out systematic mass killings in El-Fasher and then destroyed the evidence, according to a new report by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab, published Dec. 16. Based on satellite imagery, Yale HRL says it has high confidence that the Rapid Support Forces carried out widespread mass killings after seizing full control of El-Fasher, North Darfur on Oct. 26, 2025, targeting civilians attempting to flee and those sheltering in Daraja Oula, the city’s last major civilian refuge. Researchers identified at least 150 clusters - piles of human remains - visible between Oct. 26 and Nov. 1. By Nov. 28, 72% of those clusters had changed in size, with 38% no longer visible, consistent with a coordinated effort to bury, burn, or remove bodies. Yale also documented reddish discoloration consistent with blood, RSF-linked vehicle activity near dozens of sites, and signs of burning and disturbed earth. No evidence of civilian burial practices was found. The distribution points to four patterns: killings of civilians fleeing the city, door-to-door and execution-style killings in Daraja Oula, killings linked to detention or filtration sites, and killings at military installations. Yale concluded no alternative explanation accounts for the scale, timing, and consistency of the findings. 🎥 Executive Director Nathaniel Raymond Nathaniel Raymond detailed the latest findings to Drop Site this morning.

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🇸🇩 Yale researchers assess RSF carried out systematic mass killings in El-Fasher and then destroyed the evidence, according to a new report by the Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab, published Dec. 16. Based on satellite imagery, Yale HRL says it has high confidence that the Rapid Support Forces carried out widespread mass killings after seizing full control of El-Fasher, North Darfur on Oct. 26, 2025, targeting civilians attempting to flee and those sheltering in Daraja Oula, the city’s last major civilian refuge. Researchers identified at least 150 clusters - piles of human remains - visible between Oct. 26 and Nov. 1. By Nov. 28, 72% of those clusters had changed in size, with 38% no longer visible, consistent with a coordinated effort to bury, burn, or remove bodies. Yale also documented reddish discoloration consistent with blood, RSF-linked vehicle activity near dozens of sites, and signs of burning and disturbed earth. No evidence of civilian burial practices was found. The distribution points to four patterns: killings of civilians fleeing the city, door-to-door and execution-style killings in Daraja Oula, killings linked to detention or filtration sites, and killings at military installations. Yale concluded no alternative explanation accounts for the scale, timing, and consistency of the findings. 🎥 Executive Director Nathaniel Raymond [Nathaniel Raymond] detailed the latest findings to Drop Site's live stream.

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