Signal Sudan: RSF committed crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing in el-Fasher (Amnesty)

Summary

Amnesty International released a report titled City Under Siege, Children Under Fire: Rapid Support Forces' Crimes Against Humanity in North Darfur, based on interviews with 247 victims and witnesses. The report documents killings, torture, rape, sexual slavery, enslavement, extermination and persecution in and around el-Fasher between early 2024 and October 2025. The RSF systematically targeted villages, towns and displacement camps around the city, most of them populated by the predominantly non-Arab Zaghawa ethnic group. The report documents homes being burned long after residents had fled, and the use of terms denoting slavery against non-Arab civilians. Amnesty said the documented conduct, together with other crimes under parallel investigation, may amount to genocide, and it continues to investigate, echoing an earlier UN independent fact-finding mission conclusion that the assault on el-Fasher bore the hallmarks of genocide. Amnesty Secretary General Agnès Callamard called it a stain on the conscience of humanity and urged an immediate ceasefire and the deployment of an international protection force.