The ignored and brutal civil war in Sudan, which has already claimed 150,00 lives and displaced millions, has now taken an even more terrible turn in El Fashir, under siege and suffering famine. RSF rebels have captured the city, triggering the panicked flight of its remaining starving civilians. The victorious militias, which are predominantly ethnically Arab, have gone on a barbaric killing rampage of the local non-Arab population. The violence echoes the genocidal slaughters carried out by the Janjaweed militia — the RSF’s predecessor — in Darfur two decades ago.
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The Rapid Support Forces claimed responsibility for shooting down a Sudanese Armed Forces Il-76 transport plane near Babanusa in West Kordofan on November 4, using a UAE-supplied Chinese FK-2000 missile during a resupply mission, resulting in the deaths of five Russian contractors aboard. Eyewitness videos and wreckage analysis confirmed the shootdown, refuting the SAF’s claim of a technical malfunction. The incident highlights foreign involvement in Sudan’s 19-month civil war, with UAE support for the RSF and Russian contractors aiding the SAF, contributing to a humanitarian crisis that has displaced over 11 mil
Sudan’s Silent Genocide: 150,000 Dead, 14 Million Uprooted, and the World Looks Away
Sudan’s civil war, now in its 31st month, has exploded into the planet’s worst humanitarian catastrophe. What began as a power grab between two generals—SAF’s Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF’s Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo—has metastasized into ethnic slaughter and engineered famine. By November 2025, at least 150,000 lie dead, 14 million are displaced, and half the country—30 million souls—teeters on starvation.
The RSF’s October 27 seizure of El Fasher, North Darfur’s last SAF bastion, was the turning point. After an 18-month siege, RSF fighters stormed the city of 800,000. Satellite photos show bodies stacked in streets, some visible from orbit. Eyewitnesses describe RSF troops hunting Zaghawa civilians door-to-door, executing men, raping women, and separating children by tribe. In one week, 81,000 fled; 2,000 never made it out alive. A single RSF drone barrage on the Saudi Hospital’s maternity ward killed 23 newborns and mothers in minutes.
Darfur is now RSF territory—100% of the region, a quarter of Sudan’s landmass. The paramilitary’s 700+ drone strikes in 2025 alone—triple 2023’s tally—have turned markets into morgues. An SAF airstrike on Al-Koma’s souk killed 89 in a flash; RSF shelling of a WFP warehouse in El Fasher incinerated 1,200 tons of food meant for 100,000 people.
Famine is no longer a risk—it’s policy. UN analysts confirmed starvation in North Darfur and Kordofan on November 4. Three to four children die daily from malnutrition in El Fasher’s feeding centers. Across Sudan and spill-over South Sudan, 2.1 million under-fives face acute hunger by mid-2026. Aid convoys are looted or bombed; hospitals are targeted. The ICC accuses both sides of war crimes, with RSF actions labeled potential genocide.
Diplomacy is dead. A US-brokered “Quad” roadmap collapsed in October. Egypt hosts al-Burhan; the UAE—accused of arming RSF with drones and missiles via Chad—faces an ICJ genocide complicity case. Israel quietly courts both factions. Canada slapped sanctions on the generals; the UN Security Council yawns.October 2025 was Sudan’s bloodiest month for civilians. Without corridors, cash, or consequences, the RSF’s gold-fueled war machine rolls on. Darfur’s 2003 ghosts are back—this time with drones. The world’s silence is deafening.
The images from Sudan are so shocking I can’t show them all here. Hangings of babies, prisoners forced to dig their own graves and being buried alive, men being run over, stabbed and in one harrowing image, a soldier eating a raw human heart.
Where is Greta Thunberg? Silent. Mehdi Hasan? Silent. Cenk Uygur? Silent. Ana Kasparian? Silent. The UN? Silent. The media? Silent.