El-Fasher

City in Darfur, western Sudan

The Sudanese Army has been accused of incorporating former RSF members accused of war crimes
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Sudan's army is absorbing RSF defectors into its ranks, raising questions over whether fighters accused of atrocities will face justice.

Sam Hamad
21 August, 2026
United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, Denise Brown disembarks from a World Food Programme (WFP) aircraft upon her arrival at the airport in Khartoum
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A general view of the United Nations Security Council members voting during a meeting on the situation in the Middle East at the UN headquarters in New York on 10 June 2024
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Displaced Sudanese people who left El-Fasher after its fall, sit in the shade in Tawila amid the remains of a fire that broke out in the camp on February 11, 2026
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UN rights office accuses Sudan’s RSF of war crimes in El-Fasher offensive, reporting 6,000 killed in three days amid escalating conflict.
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A child infected with cholera receives treatment in the cholera isolation centre at the refugee camps of western Sudan, in Tawila city in Darfur, on August 12, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images)
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Sudanese women who fled El-Fasher sits next aid she received at the Al-Afad camp for displaced people in the town of Al-Dabba, northern Sudan, on November 25, 2025.
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Volker Türk, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, speaks onstage during Global Citizen NOW: Impact Sessions
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People are transported in the back of a truck, some 30km east of the city of El-Obeid, in Sudan's North Kordofan region, on January 9, 2023
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