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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Eromo Egbejule and agencies

RSF siege of El Fasher in Sudan has ‘hallmarks of genocide’, UN mission finds

A small child with a bandaged head is held by a woman
A Sudanese child who fled El Fasher with their family after the RSF attacked the western Darfur region receives treatment at a camp in Tawila. Photograph: Mohammed Abaker/AP

The siege and capture of the Sudanese city of El Fasher by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group last October bore “the hallmarks of genocide”, a UN-mandated fact-finding mission has said.

In a report detailing the harrowing 18-month occupation of the capital of North Darfur, investigators concluded that the RSF and allied militias deliberately inflicted conditions calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the Zaghawa and Fur ethnic communities.

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