New satellite images indicate that mass killings may still be taking place in and around El-Fasher, days after the city fell to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces following an 18-month siege, Yale University researchers reported.
At war with the regular army since April 2023, the RSF seized El-Fasher on Sunday, pushing the army out its last stronghold in the western Darfur region after a grinding 18-month siege.
Since the city's fall, reports have emerged of summary executions, sexual violence, attacks on aid workers, looting and abductions, while communications remain largely cut off.
A report by Yale University's Humanitarian Research Lab on Friday said fresh images gave them reason to believe much of the population may be "dead, captured, or in hiding".
The lab identified at least 31 clusters of objects consistent with human bodies between Monday and Friday, across neighborhoods, university grounds and military sites.
