Overview
- Investigators conclude the October 2025 takeover of el-Fasher involved coordinated, ethnically targeted atrocities against Zaghawa and Fur communities that meet multiple Genocide Convention criteria.
- UN human rights officials report more than 6,000 people were killed between Oct. 25 and Oct. 27, including at least 4,400 inside the city and over 1,600 on escape routes, with at least 300 killed earlier at Abu Shouk camp.
- The mission documents widespread sexual violence, including public gang-rapes of women and girls aged seven to 70, and exterminatory rhetoric such as threats to kill all Zaghawa and to “clean” the city.
- The inquiry, based on 320 witness interviews and authenticated videos, finds at least three genocide criteria were met: killing members of a protected group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, and deliberately inflicting life conditions calculated to destroy the group.
- Calls for accountability intensify as UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper takes the report to the UN Security Council, while the mission warns of urgent protection needs with new deadly strikes reported in Kordofan.