Shafaqna English- More than 36,000 people have fled, mostly on foot, to Tawila, a town west of El-Fasher that is already sheltering more than 652,000 displaced people, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
The RSF militia, which grew out of the genocidal violence of the Darfur conflict 20 years ago, has been locked in a brutal conflict with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) since April 2023.
More details continued to emerge on Friday (31 Oct 2025) of atrocities committed during and after the fall of El Fasher to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia in Sudan’s Darfur region.
Since the powerful paramilitary group made a major incursion into the city last week, the UN’s human rights office has received “horrendous accounts of summary executions, mass killings, rapes, attacks against humanitarian workers, looting, abductions and forced displacement,” said Seif Magango, Spokesperson for the UN’s human rights office (OHCHR).
Speaking from Nairobi to journalists in Geneva, Mr Magango said numerous testimonies had been received from residents who had fled in terror as the city fell, then “survived the threatening journey to Tawila, approximately 70 kilometers away” a journey that takes three to four days on foot.
Sources: News.un.org