More than three years into Sudan’s brutal conflict, this report documents the Rapid Support Forces’ siege and seizure of El Fasher, North Darfur, and grave crimes against civilians in and around the city.
Based on eight months of investigation and 247 interviews, including with 39 children, Amnesty International finds that the RSF committed crimes against humanity, including murder, extermination, forcible transfer, imprisonment, torture, rape, sexual slavery, other forms of sexual violence, enslavement and persecution. In the Abu Zerega area, the RSF’s destruction of predominantly Zaghawa villages is consistent with ethnic cleansing.
The report traces the RSF’s campaign from attacks on villages around El Fasher, to the siege and starvation of civilians, and the mass killings, rape, torture and hostage-taking that accompanied the city’s takeover in October 2025.
It highlights the devastating impact on children, who were killed, injured, raped, abducted, forcibly recruited, detained, orphaned and displaced on a massive scale.
The report calls for urgent international action to protect civilians by deploying an international protection force, ensuring aid reaches refugees and displaced people, strengthening accountability, supporting child protection, and ending arms flows to the parties to the conflict.
Read “City Under Siege, Children Under Fire: Rapid Support Forces’ Crimes Against Humanity in North Darfur.”