The El Fasher Atrocities

In this episode of The Horn , Alan speaks with Julia Steers, investigations editor at Lighthouse Reports, about the large-scale atrocities that took place in Darfur’s El Fasher after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the city from Sudan’s army last month. They retrace how the RSF’s seizure of El Fasher unfolded after months of siege and discuss what investigators have uncovered about the mass killings and widespread abuses that followed. They examine the scale and brutality of the attacks on civilians – many of them documented by the RSF themselves – and the ethnic pattern of the killings. They also explore the RSF’s motivations for the apparent coordinated and systematic mass killing, and how the group has responded to the reporting on these atrocities. For more, check out Lighthouse Reports’ publication “ The Killing Fields of Al Fashir ”, co-published with Sky News and Sudan War Monitor, our Hold Your Fire! episode “ What Does the RSF’s Seizure of El Fasher Mean for Sudan’s War? ” and our Sudan country page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The El Fasher Atrocities is an episode from The Horn by International Crisis Group.

This episode is 29:27 long.

This episode was published on Nov 18, 2025.

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