People displaced after Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on the Zamzam displacement camp shelter in the town of Tawila near el-Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan, on April 15, 2025 [Reuters] El Fasher, Sudan – The city of El Fasher in North Darfur has fallen into the grip of a humanitarian crisis after its capture by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The scale of violence and suffering is drawing alarm from international organisations and governments. Fall of the city For more than 18 months, El Fasher was under siege. The RSF had encircled it, cutting off food, water, medical aid and communications. On or around late October 2025 the city fell to RSF fighters. With the capture, the RSF gained control of what had been the last stronghold of the national army in Darfur. Atrocities reported Very soon after the takeover, numerous reports described what human-rights groups are calling mass killings, summary executions, and ethnic-targeted violence inside El Fasher. The W...