Sudan – One Year On From the Cataclysm of El Fasher

Takeover of North Darfur’s Capital Marked by Wanton Abuses

“It is as if a tsunami had hit the city,” said a resident who returned to Sudan’s El Fasher only to find it destroyed and largely abandoned after the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) October 2025 takeover.

For 18 months, the RSF laid siege to the city, digging a trench around it in its final months, forcing starving residents to survive on animal fodder, until even that ran out.

In the siege’s final weeks, the RSF increasingly used drones to…