October 26, 2025, will remain one of the darkest dates in the Sudanese civil war. After a suffocating 18-month siege, El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). What transpired there defies comprehension: a systematic unleashing of violence against civilians, documented by chilling accounts gathered by RFI.

The final assault: the hour of chaos

Everything changed at 4 a.m. After three days of intense shelling, the paramilitaries launched their offensive. The regular army headquarters collapsed, some troops having already deserted. Now in control of the city, the FSR began a methodical manhunt.

Ethnic and sexual cleansing

The accounts describe a terrifying "sweeping" process. The fighters go from house to house, questioning the inhabitants about their ethnicity, particularly targeting the Zaghawa .

1. Mass executions: Under the orders of local leaders like the infamous "Abu Loulou", men of fighting age are summarily executed.
2. Systemic sexual violence: For women and girls, the ordeal is almost systematic. Victims testify to repeated rapes, including of minors aged 12 and 14, during their desperate flight to displacement camps.

"If I had to describe the FSRs, I would say they are animals. And even then, not even an animal would do that to a human being." — Insaf Oumar Baraka, nurse.

The road to exile: an open-air trap

Fleeing El-Fasher did not guarantee survival. The FSR had anticipated the departures by digging embankments around the city to filter and terrorize civilians.

1. The "Butcher of El-Fasher": Videos circulating on social media show commanders mocking prisoners on their knees before executing them.
2. A deadly journey: To reach the Tawila camp (70 km), some took six days, enduring beatings and humiliations along the way.

The terror industry: ransoms and mass graves

For those who were not killed instantly, captivity became a business or forced labor:

1. The price of life: Families are contacted to pay ransoms ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 . Those who cannot pay are executed.
2. Body cleaners: Civilians were forced to collect bodies littering the streets and bury them in mass graves using excavators.

An outcome impossible to quantify.

Today, El-Fasher is a ghost town . Satellite images analyzed by Yale University confirm the horror: dozens of human shapes, 1.3 to 2 meters long, litter the streets where the massacres were filmed.

Current situation	Observations
Control	Still in the hands of the FSR
Humanitarian access	Extremely restricted and monitored by paramilitaries
Human toll	Incalculable ("Too many dead to count" according to Yale)
Infrastructure	The city was almost completely destroyed.

The accounts of survivors, such as that of 60-year-old Ibrahim, sum up the magnitude of the trauma: for those who lived through the fall of El-Fasher, it was nothing less than "the final judgment".