Amnesty accuses Sudan RSF of crimes against humanity

A new report from Amnesty International accuses Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of committing crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during its prolonged campaign to seize the city of el-Fasher between 2024 and 2025. The human rights organization released its findings on Wednesday, detailing a pattern of systematic atrocities that it says were overseen by senior RSF commanders.

The report, based on interviews with 247 victims and witnesses in North Darfur between early 2024 and October 2025, alleges the RSF carried out murder, forcible transfer, torture, sexual slavery, enslavement, and extermination. Amnesty International Secretary General Agnès Callamard described the conflict as a "war on civilians" and said the documented acts constitute "a stain on the conscience of humanity."

A central finding is that the RSF systematically attacked settlements around el-Fasher housing the Zaghawa people, a non-Arab ethnic group in western Darfur. The report states that homes were burned long after residents fled, suggesting an intent to render areas uninhabitable, which is consistent with ethnic cleansing. The rights group also documented widespread and deliberate...