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Vol 66 No 22

Published 7th November 2025


Sudan

Burhan’s leadership in question after Darfur retreat

The fall of El Fasher exposes international failures as the RSF kills thousands of civilians with impunity

The Rapid Support Forces’ seizure of El Fasher on 26 October after a brutal 16 month siege, gives it control over much of western Sudan and has strengthened its negotiating position – claiming territory larger than France. Yet mass killings and brutal reprisals against civilians, including arbitrary executions and rape, have hardened international hostility towards the RSF and its leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti’.

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