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The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Friday issued a severe warning regarding the unknown fate of hundreds of thousands of civilians who fled the Sudanese city of El-Fasher following its seizure by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) last month.
The concern is amplified by reports of ethnically targeted violence, including executions, sexual assault, and abductions, and recent satellite imagery analysed by Yale researchers showing signs consistent with the digging of mass graves near a mosque and a former children’s hospital.
MSF President Javid Abdelmoneim stated that while around 5,000 people arrived in the nearby town of Tawila, the location of the “other hundreds of thousands” is unknown, raising extreme worry given the RSF’s ethnic targeting of violence.
Survivors who reached MSF recounted “harrowing” stories, with screening showing that six out of ten adults had been starved.
The fall of El-Fasher gives the RSF control over all five state capitals in Darfur, intensifying fears of a potential partition of Sudan.
The ongoing civil war has caused millions to be displaced and created the world’s largest hunger crisis.
