skip to contentAdvertisementThe UN rights office said tens of thousands of people have fled Al-Fashir amid the fighting.By: Express Web Desk October 31, 2025 11:22 PM IST First published on: Oct 31, 2025 at 11:16 PM IST ShareWhatsapptwitterFacebookThis photo released by The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), shows displaced families from el-Fasher at a displacement camp where they sought refuge from fighting between government forces and the RSF, in Tawila, Darfur region, Sudan, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP)Hundreds of civilians and unarmed fighters may have been killed during and after the capture of Al-Fashir by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the UN human rights office said on Friday.The city, once the Sudanese army’s last major stronghold in Darfur, fell to the RSF on Sunday after an 18-month siege.“We estimate the death toll of civilians and those placed hors de combat during the RSF attack on the city and its exit routes, as well as in the days after the takeover, could amount to hundreds,”said Seif Magango, spokesperson for the UN human rights office, at a press briefing in Geneva.Nabaa Ahmed, 3, an injured Sudanese who fled el-Fasher city, after Sudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region, receives medical care at a camp in Tawila, Sudan. (AP)Magango cited witness accounts describing summary executions and mass killings, including one account of “a couple of hundred men” being shot by fighters who shouted racial slurs.How the RSF respondedA senior RSF commander rejected the allegations, calling them “media exaggeration” spread by the army and its allies “to cover up for their defeat and loss of Al-Fashir.”The commander said RSF leaders had ordered investigations into any reported abuses and that some members had already been arrested, according to Reuters.Why the UN is concernedThe UN rights office said tens of thousands of people have fled Al-Fashir amid the fighting. Some survivors walked for three to four days to reach the nearby town of Tawila, Magango said.Most ReadThis photo released by The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) shows displaced families from el-Fasher at a displacement camp where they sought refuge from fighting between government forces and the RSF, in Tawila, Darfur region, Sudan. (AP)He added that aid workers reported at least 25 women were gang-raped when RSF fighters entered a shelter for displaced people near the university.“Witnesses confirm RSF personnel selected women and girls and raped them at gunpoint, forcing the remaining displaced persons around 100 families to leave the location amid shooting and intimidation,” Magango told reporters.The President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, condemned the abuses, saying: “Lives in Sudan now depend on strong and decisive action to stop these atrocities.”AdvertisementAdvertisementLoading Taboola...