According to new satellite photos, El-Fasher, Sudan, is still experiencing mass murders.

PORT SUDAN – (Special Correspondent / Web Desk) – Days after El-Fasher fell to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, Yale researchers said that new satellite imagery indicates that mass executions are probably still occurring in and around the Sudanese city.

The RSF, which has been at war with the regular army since April 2023, took control of El-Fasher on Sunday, forcing the army to abandon its final foothold in the western Darfur region following an arduous 18-month siege.

Reports of summary killings, sexual assault, attacks on relief workers, looting, and kidnappings have surfaced since the city’s collapse, and communications are still mainly unavailable.

A report by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab on Friday said fresh images gave them reason to believe much of the population may be “dead, captured, or in hiding.”
The lab identified at least 31 clusters of objects consistent with human bodies between Monday and Friday, across neighborhoods, university grounds and military sites.
“Indicators that mass killing is continuing are clearly visible,” the lab said.
Survivors from El-Fasher who reached the nearby town of Tawila have told AFP of mass killings, children shot before their parents, and civilians beaten and robbed as they fled.
Hayat, a mother of five who fled El-Fasher, said that “young men traveling with us were stopped” along the way by paramilitaries and “we don’t know what happened to them.”

Pakistan and Afghan Taliban agree to extend their ceasefire.
The UN said more than 65,000 people have fled El-Fasher but tens of thousands remain trapped.
Prior to the RSF’s last attack, there were about 260,000 inhabitants in the city.
UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher questioned the RSF’s resolve to look into infractions, despite the RSF claiming to have detained multiple fighters accused of atrocities on Thursday.
Throughout the fight, the army and the RSF have both been accused of war crimes.
With El-Fasher’s capture, Sudan is essentially divided along an east-west axis, with the army controlling the north, east, and center. This gives the RSF complete authority over all five state capitals in Darfur.