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November 18, 2025

Tens of Thousands Go Missing from Sudan's El Fasher as U.N. Warns of Mass Atrocities
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Sudan's military says it has repelled an attack by the rival Rapid
Support Forces paramilitary group on the government's last stronghold in
the West Kordofan region. The fighting came as the UAE-backed RSF pushes
further east after seizing most of Sudan's Darfur region, where human
rights groups say they carried out mass atrocities including rape and
summary executions. On Monday, the U.N.'s humanitarian chief urged
immediate and unhindered access for aid agencies as civilians continue
to flee the besieged city of El Fasher. Tens of thousands of city
residents remain unaccounted for. Survivors who escaped El Fasher are
mostly women, many of whom were separated from male relatives who were
shot or whose fate remains unknown.

Nazik Abdelrahman: "There's no tent where you'll find women saying their
husbands came with them, except for the elderly men. … But a young man,
it would be impossible for him to leave."

The U.N. says more than two-and-a-half years of civil war in Sudan has
left more than 150,000 people dead; about 12 million have been forced
from their homes.


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