Sudan: RSF kill at least 13 people Darfur region attack
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have killed at least 13 people in the Darfur region, mostly women and children, according to AP News on August 24th.
The RSF attacked a group of people standing on a road in the particularly violent region, which the paramilitaries have near total control over. The road on which the killings occurred connects the city of El-Fasher – the state capital of North Darfur – to the nearby town of Tweila.
The Sudan Doctors Network, a group of medical professionals monitoring developments in the Sudanese civil war, said that five children, four women, and four elderly people were killed. They also claimed that the attack was ethnically motivated.
The doctors’ group said that the attack was “another episode in the ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide being perpetrated by the RSF against unarmed civilians in Darfur.”
In June 2025, the United Nations special advisor on the prevention of genocide warned that the RSF “continue to conduct ethnically motivated attacks against the Zaghawa, Masalit and Fur groups”, making the risk of genocide occurring in the Darfur region “very high.”
The killings took place only a day after the RSF shelled a hospital in El-Fasher, where combatants then proceeded to storm the site and abduct eight unarmed civilians – six women, a 40-day-old baby and a three-year-old child – who were taken to an undisclosed location, according to The New Arab via AFP on August 24th.
Famine-stricken El-Fasher, which has been under siege by the paramilitaries since May 2024, and the surrounding displacement camps, have been the target of a succession of brutal large-scale assaults by the RSF.
The escalation in violence is part of the RSF’s campaign to flush out the final stronghold of the Sudanese military in the Darfur region, who still control the city.
Sudan has been ravaged by an extremely violent civil war since April 2023, which erupted after a power struggle between the RSF and the military turned bloody.
AP News, Maghrebi.org, The New Arab, AFP
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