A UN report published this week has laid out how Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed mass crimes as it seized the city of el-Fasher in late October.
The mission found that the attack bore the “hallmarks of genocide”.
The Sudan war erupted in April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the RSF, commanded by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, spiralled into open conflict.
Tens of thousands of people have been killed and 13 million have been displaced.
The violence escalated four months ago, as the RSF brutally captured el-Fasher after besieging the city for a year and a half.
