Overview
- A UN Fact-Finding Mission concluded that the Rapid Support Forces carried out mass killings, gang rapes and deliberate starvation in El Fasher consistent with genocide.
- Investigators documented door-to-door executions, identity-based targeting and indiscriminate attacks that killed thousands when RSF forces seized the city after a prolonged siege.
- The mission warned the RSF is using the same encirclement, attacks on infrastructure and restrictions on aid around El Obeid and, following the 6 July Human Rights Council resolution, will probe abuses there.
- The wider war has produced a deep humanitarian collapse with roughly 59,000 dead, about 14 million displaced and 33.7 million people in need of assistance while drone strikes and blackouts have worsened civilian suffering.
- The finding raises calls for International Criminal Court cooperation and Security Council measures even as the RSF denies the allegations and limited access hinders evidence gathering and accountability.