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“We Could Not Breathe Inside Those Containers” RSF’s Systematic Detention, Torture and Extortion in North Darfur

After the fall of El Fasher, the Rapid Support Forces turned arbitrary detention into a criminal enterprise targeting thousands of civilians. March 2026 On 26 October 2025, El Fasher, the last state capital in Darfur not under RSF control fell after more than 500 days of siege. As tens of thousands of civilians fled, RSF […]

Darfur’s Deepening Catastrophe: What Is Happening in El Fasher and Why the World Must Not Look Away 

KEY FACTS AT A GLANCE  Darfur is entering one of the darkest chapters in its 20-year history of violence. The fall of El Fasher on 26 October 2025 — after nearly 560 days of siege — has triggered a wave of killings, mass displacement, sexual violence, and starvation that UN officials describe as “terrifying,” “unprecedented,” […]