{"id":217458,"date":"2025-12-20T22:38:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-yale-lab-confirms-rsf-mass-killings-and-cover-up-in-el-fasher\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:38:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:38:30","slug":"sudan-yale-lab-confirms-rsf-mass-killings-and-cover-up-in-el-fasher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-yale-lab-confirms-rsf-mass-killings-and-cover-up-in-el-fasher\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: Yale Lab &#8216;Confirms RSF Mass Killings and Cover-Up in El Fasher&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"56\">El Fasher \u2014 <em>The Yale School of Public Health&#8217;s Humanitarian Research Laboratory (HRL) said it has confirmed, with a &#8220;high degree of confidence&#8221;, that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out large-scale and systematic mass killings in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, after taking full control of the city and its surroundings on 26 October 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><a href=\"https:\/\/files-profile.medicine.yale.edu\/documents\/001a93f9-1c99-4437-a023-bac1294d3d0e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the report published by the laboratory on Tuesday<\/a>, the RSF targeted civilians attempting to flee El Fasher as well as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512190031.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Fasher \u2014 The Yale School of Public Health&#8217;s Humanitarian Research Laboratory (HRL) said it has confirmed, with a &#8220;high degree of confidence&#8221;, that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out large-scale and systematic mass killings in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, after taking full control of the city and its surroundings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":217459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,6824,23966,43880,6612,14592,7883,257,2830,254,4708,1613,20534],"class_list":["post-217458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-confirms","tag-coverup","tag-fasher","tag-killings","tag-lab","tag-mass","tag-news","tag-rsf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-yale"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}