RSF actions in Sudan’s al-Fashir points to genocide, UN probe says

February 19, 2026 2:38 PM

RSF actions in Sudan’s al-Fashir points to genocide, UN probe says

Mass killings of non‑Arab communities when the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group captured the Sudanese city of al‑Fashir bears hallmarks that point to genocide, an independent UN probe said in a new report on Thursday. At the end of October last year, the RSF took over the city - which had been the last remaining stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the Darfur region in the west of the country - with thousands of people killed and raped during three days of horror, the UN ...

Thousands of children at risk of death in Sudan’s besieged al-Fashir, UN says

October 23, 2025 9:32 PM

Thousands of children at risk of death in Sudan’s besieged al-Fashir, UN says

Thousands of children are facing an imminent risk of death as malnutrition rates skyrocket in the besieged city of al-Fashir in Sudan's Darfur region, four United Nations agencies said on Thursday. More than a quarter of a million civilians, about half of them children, have been cut off from food and healthcare in the city during a 16-month-old standoff, the agencies said. "Health facilities have collapsed, and thousands of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition are now without tre...