Sudan’s National Doctor’s Syndicate is reporting that at least 25,000 children have been killed in the Siege of Al-Fashir since the war broke out in Sudan in April 2023. The death toll covers deaths by war, violence and famine. Many have died by exhaustion and thirst as they fled to Tawila by foot. They are also reporting that up to 45 girls and women have been raped.
These latest death toll reports align with statements by other sources, and are partially backed with the large numbers of dead bodies that have been captured on video and via satellite imagery.
Survivors of the Al-Fashir are still arriving in Tawila after the city was captured by the UAE-backed, Rapid Support Forces, who committed ethnic cleansing as soon as they captured the city. They also captured journalist Muammar Ibrahim and they are holding him captive.
There are multiple reports stating that the RSF are using trapped citizens in Al-Fashir for ransom, threatening to kill them if their relatives abroad don’t pay significant sums of money.
The RSF are specifically targeting the Masalit and other non-Arab tribes in their ongoing genocide in Darfur. The International Criminal Court has an ongoing investigation on the war crimes and ethnic cleansing that was committed in Al-Fashir. Fighting is currently ongoing in the West and South Kordofan states.
Bellow is the testimony of professor Nathanial Raymond, who leads the satellite observation mission over Darfur, Sudan at the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health.
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