El Fasher, long a refuge during earlier massacres, fell last weekend to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). What followed, survivors say, was a wave of shootings, executions and terror as residents fled through fields or hid in shattered neighbourhoods. Doctors reported hundreds killed in a single day at the last functioning hospital. The scenes echo Darfur’s darkest years, but this time the perpetrators are better armed and more organised, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Who the RSF are — and what has changed

The RSF descend from the Janjaweed militias accused of genocide in the 2000s. Once mounted fighters burning villages, they now field armoured convoys, heavy artillery and drones. Their leader, Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan “Hemeti,” casts himself as a national figure and even announced a p

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