The UN fact-finding mission for Sudan has produced a follow-up [8] to its February investigation [9] into atrocities by the Rpaid Defense Forces (RSF [10]) in El Fasher [11], finding at least three of the material crimes of genocide "overwhelmingly present." After a prolonged siege, the UAE-backed group launched an October 2025 assault on El Fasher, which was the last major Darfur city [12] where the Sudanese army and allied forces were active. Since the February publication, the mission said it has received new information, especially on the abduction and mass rape of women and girls. It says survivors were raped by RSF forces in the presence of corpses, including family members, and were targeted along ethnic lines. The mission also received new information on the high number of people—it says up to tens of thousands—who remain missing or unaccounted for, and describes the involvement of senior RSF members, including Deputy Commander Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo, during the takeover. With the RSF planning a new assault on the North Kordofan capital, El Obeid [11], the mission said [13] the same patterns are repeating and called for the lessons of El Fasher not to be ignored.
From The New Humanitarian [15], July 10
