UN Report Suggests Rapid Support Forces Genocide in Sudan

 UN News published on 19 February 2026 an article titled "Sudan: 'Hallmarks of Genocide' Found in El Fasher, UN Investigators Detail Mass Killings and Ethnic Targeting" by Vibhu Mishra.

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out ethnically targeted killings, widespread sexual violence, and enforced disappearance during their late-October takeover of El Fasher in Sudan's Darfur Region.  They committed three underlying acts of genocide, which is the only reasonable inference you can take from the RSF killings.  

Detailed Report on Massacre in Sudan's Darfur Province

 The independent Lighthouse Reports published on 9 September 2024 an article titled "The Kutum Massacre."  It was co-published with Sky News, Le Monde, and The Washington Post.

The report provides details on the June 2023 extrajudicial killing of more than 70 non-Arab Sudanese civilians in the western region of Darfur Province by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.  

The Battle for Sudan's El Fasher

 The International Crisis Group (ICG) posted on 24 June 2024 an analysis titled "Halting the Catastrophic Battle for Sudan's El Fasher."

A showdown between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is unfolding in Sudan's North Darfur region in the besieged capital of El Fasher.  More than a million civilians are caught up in the conflict.  

The ICG is calling on the United Nations and the United States to mediate a de-escalation of the situation while the UAE presses the RSF to stand down and Egypt and Saudi Arabia do the same with the SAF.  

Genocide Looming in Sudan's Darfur Region

 Foreign Policy published on 5 June 2024 a commentary titled "Sudanese Militias Are Committing Genocide--Again" by Mutasim Ali and Yonah Diamond, both at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights.  

The authors argue that genocide is unfolding in Darfur instigated by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.  They add that the international peace process is not designed to prevent genocide from happening.  

Concern with Genocide in Sudan's Darfur

 Just Security published on 9 May 2024 a commentary titled "The Darfur Genocide Demands International Action and Accountability" by Mutasim Ali and Yonah Diamond, both with the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights.

The eminent risk of genocide and crimes against humanity in Sudan's North Darfur region begs for international action.  The authors argue that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces continue to commit genocide against the non-Arab Masalit in West Darfur.  

Preventing Another Darfur Genocide

 The Center for Strategic and International Studies published on 25 April 2024 a commentary titled "Preventing Another Darfur Genocide" by Cameron Hudson.  

The author suggests several steps that might help prevent an incipient genocide in Sudan's North Darfur region.  

US Senators Recognize Genocide in Sudan's Darfur

 Four members (two Democrats and two Republicans) of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee introduced on 13 February 2024 a resolution recognizing the actions of the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias in the Darfur region of Sudan against non-Arab ethnic communities as acts of genocide.  

Sudan's Darfur Faces All-out Ethnic War

Aljazeera published on 22 November 2023 an article titled "Fears of All-out Ethnic War Rise in Sudan's Darfur" by Mat Nashed.

 The on-going fighting in Darfur will most likely turn into an all-out ethnic based conflict.  Five mostly non-Arab armed militia known as the Joint Protection Forces have banded together to protect the last remaining part of Darfur region from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

Sudan's Darfur: Back to the Future

 Foreign Affairs published on 18 September 2023 an article titled "The New Crisis in Darfur" by Alex de Waal.  

New atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region are reminiscent of the genocide that began in 2003.  The difference is that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have replaced the Janjaweed.  A solution hinges now on actions taken by the United Nations, African Union, and United States.

Georgetown Student Becomes Sudan's Justice Minister

The Washington Post Magazine published on 9 February 2020 a story titled "The Georgetown Student Who Became Justice Minister of Sudan" by Rebecca Hamilton.

Nasredeen Abdulbari was working on his PhD dissertation at Georgetown University when he received a text message from a civil society leader in Khartoum asking him to call urgently. He made the call and learned that he had been nominated to become the new minister of justice. A month later, he returned to Khartoum to assume the position. This story recounts what has happened subsequently.