The Sudanese city of Al-Fashir has been left devastated after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized control from the Sudanese Army, with the UN and medical groups accusing the paramilitary of committing genocide.
The fall of Al-Fashir on October 26 ended a 19-month siege and marked the collapse of the Sudanese Armed Forces’ last major stronghold in North Darfur.
Footage released by Ruptly shows entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble, burned-out vehicles, and makeshift shelters scattered across the city. Reports from the ground describe mass executions, house raids, and ethnically targeted killings that have claimed thousands of lives. The UN condemned the assault, warning of “large-scale, ethnically driven violence,” while its human rights office called Al-Fashir “a city of grief.”
According to the Sudan Doctors Network, the RSF has buried hundreds of victims in mass graves to conceal the scale of the killings.
The International Organization for Migration estimates that about 89,000 of the city’s 260,000 residents have fled since the takeover. Despite a US-backed ceasefire proposal supported by several regional powers, the Sudanese Army has rejected it, vowing to continue fighting the RSF in the two-year civil war.
