Overview
- The UN fact-finding mission concluded the RSF’s takeover of el-Fasher followed an 18-month siege that deliberately deprived non-Arab civilians of food, water and aid.
- Investigators said at least three Genocide Convention acts were met—mass killings, serious bodily and mental harm, and conditions calculated to destroy parts of the Zaghawa and Fur communities.
- The UN Human Rights Office reported more than 6,000 people were killed in the city between Oct. 25 and 27, 2025, with additional killings at the nearby Abu Shouk displacement camp.
- The findings draw on 320 witness interviews, field missions to Chad and South Sudan, and authenticated videos, and document widespread rape of girls and women as young as seven alongside exterminatory rhetoric.
- In immediate fallout, the United States sanctioned three RSF commanders and the UK took the report to the UN Security Council, as new drone strikes in Kordofan—including one that killed aid workers, according to a medical network—underscore ongoing threats to civilians and relief operations.