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11-11-2025
UNITED NATIONS/ KHARTOUM: The United Nations Human Rights Office in Sudan says that “brutal attacks” are escalating in el-Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the city in the western region of Darfur last month.
“Over the past 10 days, el-Fasher has witnessed an escalation of brutal attacks. It has become a city of grief,” Li Fung, the UN’s human rights representative in Sudan, said in a video published on social media on Saturday.
“Civilians who survived 18 months of siege and hostilities are now enduring atrocities of an unimaginable scale,” she said.
“Hundreds have been killed, including women, children and the wounded, who sought safety in hospitals and schools. Entire families were cut down as they fled. Others have simply vanished.”
The warning comes as aid groups said that thousands of people who fled the capital of North Darfur state face dire conditions in the town of Tawila.
Adam Rojal, the spokesperson for the Sudan’s IDPs and Refugee Camps aid group, told media that more than 16,000 people had arrived in Tawila, with many in desperate need of food, medicine, shelter materials and psychological support.
Video footage from the aid group showed displaced people in a barren area with barely enough tents, many of them improvised from patched tarps and sheets. Rojal said that some families were surviving on just one meal a day.
On Friday, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, reported “extremely high levels of malnutrition among children and adults”.
Mathilde Vu, the advocacy manager for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) in Sudan, told media that many families arriving in Tawila came with “children who are not their own”.
“That means that they have to come with children who have lost their parents on the way, either because they’ve been disappeared, disappeared in a chaos, or they’ve been detained, or they’ve been killed,” she said.
Tawila is just one of several locations to which people fled after the RSF took over el-Fasher, the last Sudanese military stronghold in Sudan’s western Darfur region, on October 26.
A report from Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab on October 28 found evidence of “mass killings”, including apparent pools of blood that were visible in satellite imagery.
The International Organization for Migration estimates that about 82,000 people had fled the city and surrounding areas as of November 4, heading to Tawila, Kebkabiya, Melit and Kutum. El-Fasher had a population of approximately 260,000 before the RSF takeover. The UN’s human rights chief, Volker Turk, said on Friday that civilians still trapped there were being prevented from leaving.
“I fear that the abominable atrocities such as summary executions, rape and ethnically motivated violence are continuing within the city,” he added.
El-Obeid braces for RSF assault
As the humanitarian crisis in Darfur spirals, the conflict has spread to the neighboring Kordofan region.
Early this week, a drone attack in el-Obeid, the capital of the North Kordofan province, killed at least 40 people and wounded dozens more.
A military official speaking on condition of anonymity told media that the army intercepted two Chinese-made drones targeting el-Obeid on Saturday morning.
Locals’ fears of an RSF assault have been heightened by the group’s recent capture of the town of Bara, located about 60km (36 miles) north, which had prompted more than 36,000 people to flee the town, according to the UN. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
