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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Mark Townsend

RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show

Side-by-side satellite images of Mewashei (livestock) market, El Fasher, Sudan, the left side, from 8 November 2023, shows evidence of market activity, the right side, from 17 November 2025, shows no activity.
Satellite imagery from November 2023, left, shows people, vehicles and carts around the livestock market in El Fasher, while an image taken on 17 November 2025, right, shows no signs of life. Photograph: Courtesy of Humanitarian Research Lab/Yale School of Public Health

The Sudanese city of El Fasher resembles a “massive crime scene”, with large piles of bodies heaped throughout its streets as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) work to destroy evidence of the scale of their massacre.

Six weeks after the RSF seized the city, corpses have been gathered together in scores of piles to await burial in mass graves or cremated in huge pits, analysis indicates.

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