Sudan: Survivors of Al-Fasher attack recount difficult escape from Sudan

They could do nothing but watch as militia fighters shot and killed their loved ones. The survivors said they were held captive, beaten, robbed of their phones and stripped of the savings they had collected over a lifetime. The fighters even took their shoes. In early November 2025, survivors of a three-day attack by paramilitary forces in western Sudan began arriving in the desert town of Tina on the Chad-Sudan border. There, a team of Reuters journalists spoke to some of the survivors about the atrocities they said they experienced while fleeing the control of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Al-Fasher, a major city in Sudan’s Darfur region. The city, which had a population of about one million people […]