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


Sudanese refugees from al-Fashir gather at sunset in the Tine transit camp amid the conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Army, in eastern Chad, November 23, 2025. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

GENEVA, Feb 19 (Reuters) - 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 Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan said.

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