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  Sudan calls on UN to blacklist Rapid Support Forces
Sudan calls on the UN Security Council to label the Rapid Support Forces as terrorists amid reports of massacres and hospital attacks in El Fasher, Darfur. The Sudanese government has called on the United Nations Security Council to designate the...
 
    
  Sudan: RSF leader orders probe after reports of mass killings in el-Fasher
KHARTOUM – The head of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has announced an investigation into alleged abuses by his troops following their capture of the key Darfur city of el-Fasher, amid widespread reports of mass civilian killings....
 
    
  Both sides in Sudan guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, UN fact-finding mission says
It finds Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces guilty of ‘ethnically targeted executions, sexual violence and deliberate use of starvation as weapon of war’ ‘Destruction of essential infrastructure has defined this war,’ including attacks...
 
    
  UN Security Council condemns RSF assault on El-Fasher amid warnings of ‘blood on the sand’ in Sudan
UN Security Council condemns RSF assault on El-Fasher amid warnings of ‘blood on the sand’ in Sudan ‘World has failed an entire generation of Sudanese children,’ says humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher Ephrem Kossaify NEW YORK: The UN Security...
 
    
  After Horrific Massacres in Sudan, Lawmakers Call for US to Stop Funding 'Arms Dealers' in UAE
After Sudan's Rapid Support Forces overran the city of el-Fasher this week, committing a series of horrific war crimes, lawmakers are calling for the US to pull its financial support for the United Arab Emirates, which is accused of providing...
 
    
  El-Fasher massacre: Sudan seeks designation of RSF as terrorist group
The Charge d’Affaires of the Embassy of the Republic of Sudan in Nigeria, Ambassador Ahmed Omer Ahmed Taboul, has called on the international community to designate the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as a terrorist organisation. He made...
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  Scores of people killed in Sudan as videos of atrocities by RSF spark global outrage
Scores of people have been killed in the latest spate of violence unleashed by Rapid Support Forces (RSF) during their recent capture of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region. Videos circulating online show the brutality that has...
 
    
  UN: Over 460 reportedly killed at hospital in Sudan
The United Nations says hundreds of people in Sudan have reportedly been killed at a hospital in an area captured by paramilitary forces. The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that the hospital in El Fasher was attacked on Tuesday, and...
Thousands trapped in Sudan's El Fasher amid mounting atrocity reports
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher speaks at a Security Council meeting at the UN headquarters in New York, Oct. 30, 2025. (Manuel Elias/UN Photo/Handout via Xinhua)The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian...
 
    
  Colin Sheridan: Power enables atrocity in Sudan — and Ireland must call it out
In the crowded ledger of global humanitarian disasters, the crisis in Sudan has quietly crept to the top. For the Irish reader accustomed to hearing of genocide in Gaza or war in Ukraine, this disaster may feel even more remote. But its scale, and...
 
    
  US Urged to End Arms Sales to UAE as It Backs Genocidal Paramilitary in Sudan
Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Calls are growing for the U.S. to end arms transfers to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after...
 
    
  Sudan: RSF fighters killed patients in Al-Fashir hospital, beat Darfur men to death infornt of women and kids
U.S. senators kept their political differences aside to call for a strong response after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) group seized new territory in Sudan, reportedly attacking civilians. They have called for the U.S. to officially...
 
    
  'We saw people murdered in front of us' - Sudan siege survivors speak to the BBC
Barbara Plett UsherAfrica correspondent ShareSave Ezzeldin Hassan Musa was beaten with sticks before he managed to flee Shaken, scratched and left with just the clothes he is wearing, Ezzeldin Hassan Musa describes the brutality of Sudan's Rapid...
 
    
  Sudan urges UNSC to investigate 'genocide' in Darfur's El Fasher
Sudan’s envoy to the UN has urged the Security Council to investigate what he described as genocide in El-Fasher, where the RSF is accused of killing hundreds. Sudan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith...
 
    
  Sudanese Doctors accuse RSF of ethnic cleansing in North Darfur
The Sudanese Doctors Union accuses the RSF of massacring thousands in El Fasher, with reports of ethnic cleansing, mass displacement, and burned escapees. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been accused by the Sudanese Doctors' Union of...
 
    
  Sudan: In el-Fasher, 'we are witnessing mass atrocities through our screens'
A satellite image analyzed by Yale University in the United States shows evidence of massacres in the Daraja Oula neighborhood of el-Fasher, Sudan, on October 27, 2025. © AIRBUS DS 2025 / AP A soldier walks down the stairs, with an automatic...
Roundup: Thousands trapped in Sudan's El Fasher amid mounting atrocity reports
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 30 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of people remain trapped in Sudan's western city of El Fasher as reports of atrocities against civilians mount and the humanitarian crisis deepens, UN humanitarians said Thursday. The UN Office for the...
 
    
  Sudan demands accountability for paramilitary RSF after killing patients, medical staff in El-Fasher
1,750 people fled to Chad from border area of Tina in North Darfur due to worsening insecurity, says UN migration organization KHARTOUM, Sudan/ISTANBUL Sudan called on the international community on Thursday to hold the paramilitary Rapid Support...
 
    
  Mass killings continue in Sudan's El Fasher, aid groups say
Mass killings continue to be reported in the Sudanese city of El Fasher after rebel forces took control on Sunday, ending an 18-month siege and sparking further alarm about a massive humanitarian crisis. The reported killings come after the Rapid...
 
    
  Sudan atrocities 'not incidental acts of war,' form pattern: UN expert
ISTANBUL UN investigators said Thursday that atrocities in Sudan are not random war casualties but a “deliberate pattern” to terrorize and starve civilians, particularly targeting non-Arab ethnic groups. "These are not incidental acts of war. They...