Genocide warnings 'flashing red' after RSF takeover of Sudan's El-Fasher
Africa • Oct 29, 2025, 6:03 PM
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Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have seized the western city of El-Fasher amid reports of extreme violence and mass killings. The capture of the key city in the Darfur region is a strategic boon for the paramilitary group, raising fears that Sudan’s ongoing civil war will enter a new phase of escalation.
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UN Security Council condemns 'atrocities' in Sudan's El-Fasher as RSF advances
Africa • 9:19 PM
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Sudanese fleeing the RSF paramilitary's takeover of the city of El-Fasher on Sunday continue to bring accounts of mass atrocities with them. Hundreds were killed in the fighters' wresting of the north Darfuri capital from the army, with many of the abuse
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Sudanese missing in El-Fasher after paramilitary takeover are in ‘grave danger’, aid groups warn
Africa • 6:00 PM
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International aid groups on Thursday warned that the trickle of people arriving at a refugee camp in Sudan from El-Fasher after it was seized by a paramilitary group is a sign of the extensive atrocities committed in the major Darfur city and the difficu
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Sudanese refugees recount RSF violence in El-Fasher
Africa • 5:06 PM
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#Refugees who fled #Sudan’s #El-Fasher recount brutal #RSF attacks, hunger and #shelling that killed their families. Aid groups call it war crimes, with around 2,000 people feared dead as the scale of atrocities committed when the RSF seized the city com
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RSF killed hundreds at Darfur hospital, aid workers say, as thousands others flee
Africa • 4:04 PM
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More than 36,000 civilians have fled el-Fasher since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces captured the army's last stronghold in the Darfur region. The UN and other NGOs have been warning about possible mass killings and ethnic cleansing, after hundreds
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Inside the mega farms growing cheap Moroccan tomatoes
Africa • 1:28 PM
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French tomato producers are seeing red, angry at what they believe is unfair competition from Morocco. In one of the most arid parts of the North African country, thousands of workers pick tomatoes that will eventually be sold to French supermarkets for
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Tanzania under curfew, Internet blackout after tense elections turn violent
Africa • 6:53 AM
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An Internet blackout imposed after protests erupted on Tanzania's election day Wednesday was still in place across the east African nation on Thursday. With President Samia Suluhu Hassan widely expected to solidify her power, protesters have criticised t
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