For the first time since October, a United Nations humanitarian team entered el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, to assess the aftermath of a violent takeover by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The visit offered a grim glimpse into a city largely emptied by fear, with hundreds of residents still clinging to life amid widespread destruction, shortages of food and medicine, and makeshift shelters.
The RSF’s takeover followed a year-long siege of the city by the paramilitary force, during which survivors report indiscriminate killings in homes, hospitals, and streets.
Satellite images and witness accounts suggest bodies were burned or buried in mass graves.
The U.N. said it was unable to verify the full scale of the killings, and the death toll remains unknown.
