The Sudanese government said that more than 2,000 civilians have been killed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in western Sudan’s El Fasher since it entered the city on Sunday. During a press conference in Port Sudan, Mona Nour Al-Daem, Sudan’s Deputy Commissioner of Humanitarian Aid, condemned the act as genocide against unarmed civilians. She said the RSF has executed patients and the wounded in hospitals and hunted fleeing civilians, with many victims subjected to sexual violence.

 

 

The Sudan Founding Alliance, a coalition that includes the RSF, several armed movements, political parties, and civil society forces, has denied any violence against civilians in El Fasher. The war between the Sudan Armed Forces and the RSF, now in its third year, has killed tens of thousands, displaced millions, and left much of the country on the brink of famine.