Sudan: Interview – Investigating the Downfall of El Fasher, Sudan

Laetitia Bader, Human Rights Watch’s deputy Africa director, and Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, senior Crisis and Conflict advisor, traveled to eastern Chad in mid-December 2025 where they interviewed dozens of refugees who had fled El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, following the takeover of the city in late October 2025 by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), one of Sudan’s two main warring parties.

Meeting with survivors confirmed that the world has failed civilians in Sudan. What…