El Fasher Stories

MSF raises alarm over extreme malnutrition as Sudan crisis deepens
Mary Wambui  |  Nov 15, 2025

Thousands of families live in makeshift camps with little access to clean water, food, or hygiene services, leading to a cholera outbreak and rising c...

UNHCR warns of deepening humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Kordofan
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Nov 15, 2025

UNHCR notes that women and girls have been subjected to rape and other sexual violence, while parents search for missing children separated during the...

Sudan war: Women endure starvation, rape and bombs fleeing El Fasher
UN News  |  Nov 12, 2025

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia captured North Darfur state capital El Fasher after more than 500 days of siege in late October, amid reports o...

Sudan war: 89,000 civilians have fled El Fasher
UN News  |  Nov 11, 2025

The UN called for an “immediate cessation of hostilities” as well as the protection of civilians and aid workers, an end to hospital and civilian infr...

Ignored warnings, deadly consequences: How UK failed Sudan's El Fasher civilians
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 09, 2025

Internal UK documents reveal officials chose minimal action despite warnings of mass killings and sexual violence in El Fasher.

Sudan medics demand international investigation over El Fasher mass graves
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 09, 2025

Medics accuse Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces of mass killings and body-burnings in El Fasher, calling for urgent international investigations as tens of...

Rights chief warns ‘abominable atrocities’ likely continuing in Sudan’s El Fasher
UN News  |  Nov 08, 2025

In an interview with UN News on Thursday, UN Special Adviser on genocide prevention Chaloka Beyani raised concerns over allegations of war crimes in E...

Genocide prevention expert raises alarm over alleged Sudan atrocity crimes
UN News  |  Nov 07, 2025

Beyani’s office said risk indicators for atrocity crimes are present in Sudan but emphasises that only an international court or other legal body can...

Fact Check: How fake content about the Sudan war spreads
DW News  |  Nov 06, 2025

While atrocities against civilians and combatants alike remain a sad reality of Sudan's brutal civil war, some of the most viral content around the co...

Sudan’s pain deepens as RSF accused of drone attack that killed 40 at funeral in Kordofan
DW News  |  Nov 05, 2025

The UN condemns the attack as civilians bear the brunt of Sudan’s worsening conflict between the army and RSF.

UAE gold imports from Sudan surge despite civil war, Swissaid report reveals
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 05, 2025

Further, Swissaid accused the Gulf nation of acting as "a global hub for gold of dubious origin," with much of the Sudanese gold allegedly linked to t...

Sudan crisis deepens as ICC warns El-Fasher atrocities may be war crimes
DW News  |  Nov 03, 2025

The ICC warns that mass killings, rapes, and other atrocities in El-Fasher may amount to war crimes as Sudan’s civil war devastates Darfur.

Only a few civilians escape as RSF violence ravages Sudan’s El-Fasher, leaving thousands trapped
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 02, 2025

Survivors describe executions, beatings, and terror as only a few civilians manage to flee while tens of thousands remain stranded in El-Fasher.

Pope Leo XIV appeals for end to Sudan conflict as thousands killed in El Fasher
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 02, 2025

He urged both sides to cease hostilities immediately and allow life-saving aid to reach civilians, while also appealing to the international community...

Foreign ministers decry 'apocalyptic' atrocities in Sudan
DW News  |  Nov 02, 2025

Fighting has raged in Sudan between the military and its former ally, the RSF, since 2023. The United Arab Emirates has been accused of fueling the cr...

Sudan war: Could involved foreign powers stop the war there?
DW News  |  Nov 01, 2025

Sudan's warring factions depend on external support. What do Egypt, the UAE, Iran and Turkey want in Sudan? And could they exert enough influence to s...

Tens of thousands fleeing on foot amid atrocities in Sudan’s El Fasher
UN News  |  Nov 01, 2025

The RSF militia which grew out of the genocidal violence of the Darfur conflict 20 years ago, has been locked in a brutal conflict with the Sudanese A...

Sudan's RSF fighters reportedly arrested for 'violations'
DW News  |  Oct 31, 2025

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said several of its fighters had been detained as videos of mass executions and atrocities in el-Fasher circ...

UN warns of ‘darker hell’ in El-Fasher after RSF seizes city
Mwangi Maina  |  Oct 31, 2025

The Security Council previously sanctioned RSF commanders for violence and human-rights violations.

Explainer: What does strategic Darfur city's fall mean for Sudan's deadly civil war
XINHUA  |  Oct 31, 2025

In El Fasher, civilians endured months of intense bombardment during a siege. Sudanese officials said on Wednesday that more than 2,000 civilians have...

‘Blood on the sand, blood on the hands’: UN decries world’s failure as Sudan’s El Fasher falls
UN News  |  Oct 31, 2025

Nearly 500 patients and their companions were reportedly killed in the Saudi Maternity Hospital, one of numerous health facilities targeted in the fig...

UN urges end to El-Fasher siege as violence escalates in Sudan’s Darfur
DW News  |  Oct 30, 2025

Speaking in Brussels, Sudan’s Ambassador to the EU, Aldelbagi Kabeir, criticised the international response, describing an EU statement on the conflic...

Over 15,000 flee Sudan's El Fasher amid RSF attacks on civilians
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 30, 2025

The Sudanese Doctors Network warned of an imminent humanitarian catastrophe in Tawila if international agencies do not intervene urgently.

Reports reveal British weapons used by Sudan’s RSF to commit atrocities
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 30, 2025

According to the documents, the equipment reached the RSF through the United Arab Emirates (UAE), revelations that have reignited scrutiny of Britain'...

Sudan war: Mass killings prompt fears of a new Darfur genocide
DW News  |  Oct 30, 2025

More horrific reports of atrocities against civilians in el-Fasher came on the third day after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized control.

Reported massacre at hospital in Sudan’s El Fasher leaves 460 dead
UN News  |  Oct 30, 2025

Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that prior to this latest attack, WHO has verified 285 attacks on healthcare in Sudan with at least 1...

Amnesty International urges RSF to end El Fasher siege, as WHO calls for immediate ceasefire
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 29, 2025

The World Health Organisation has called for an immediate ceasefire after reports that 460 patients and their companions were massacred at the Saudi M...

Sudan expels two senior World Food Programme officials amid escalating tensions
Mwangi Maina  |  Oct 29, 2025

Laurent Bukera, head of the WFP office in Sudan, and Samantha Chattaraj, the agency's operations director, were summoned by the ministry and formally...

Sudan army withdraws from El Fasher as RSF seizes control
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 28, 2025

The remarks mark Abdel's first confirmation that the army lost control of the strategic city in western Darfur, which has been under RSF siege since M...

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