{"id":24002,"date":"2026-02-20T08:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T06:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/rsf-targets-non-arab-communities-in-sudans-el-fasher-report\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:45","slug":"rsf-targets-non-arab-communities-in-sudans-el-fasher-report","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/rsf-targets-non-arab-communities-in-sudans-el-fasher-report\/","title":{"rendered":"RSF targets non-Arab communities in Sudan&#8217;s El-Fasher: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">A new report by a United Nations (UN) Independent Fact Finding Mission for Sudan has found that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carried out a co-ordinated campaign of destruction against non-Arab communities in and around El-Fasher, the hallmarks of which point to genocide.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The mission assessed the mass killings and related atrocities committed by the paramilitary group during its October takeover of North Darfur&#8217;s capital, and found evidence that at least three underlying acts of genocide were committed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The Mission found that acts that included killings of members of a protected ethnic group, actions that cause serious bodily and mental harm and deliberately inflicting conditions of live calculated to bring about the group&#8217;s physical destruction in whole or in part.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">This was some of the key reactions from the UN Security Council in New York.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">The report&#8217;s findings are chilling starvation used as a weapon of war, mass killings, civilians ambushed and slaughtered as they fled and women raped by the bodies of their murdered children.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Ethnic targeting and perpetrators calling for extermination and what the report describes as hallmarks of genocide.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15322,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-24002","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"RSF carried out a co-ordinated campaign of destruction against non-Arab communities","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26814,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24002\/revisions\/26814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=24002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}