Overview
- Amnesty published a report on Wednesday based on 247 victim and witness interviews that says the Rapid Support Forces systematically attacked Zaghawa communities around El‑Facher and committed crimes against humanity.
- The report says a siege from May 2024 to October 2025 produced famine and that hundreds of civilians trying to flee the FSR assault on 26 October 2025 were massacred against earthen barriers around the city.
- Survivors described executions, mass detention in appalling conditions, rape, torture and the deliberate targeting of children who were killed, wounded, abducted or forcibly recruited.
- Amnesty is calling for an immediate ceasefire and urgent deployment of an international protection force and is urging states to curb arms flows tied to the FSR to prevent attacks on El‑Obeid.
- A UN fact‑finding mission earlier reported 'acts of genocide' in El‑Facher and legal determinations remain under investigation while political and logistical obstacles limit rapid protection and accountability.