UN: Over 60,000 Flee Sudanese City After RSF Capture.

2 days ago7 min read

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have seized control of El-Fasher, the last major city in Sudan's Darfur region not under their command, triggering a catastrophic and immediate human exodus. More than 60,000 people, according to urgent UN tallies, have fled in a desperate, dust-choked scramble, their lives compressed into whatever they could carry, joining the nearly ten million already displaced in a conflict that has pushed the nation to the brink of collapse.This isn't just another dateline in a forgotten war; this is the fall of a humanitarian citadel, a city that had become a fragile sanctuary for hundreds of thousands who had already escaped the RSF's brutal campaign of ethnic violence. The capture of El-Fasher is a strategic and symbolic hammer blow, cementing the RSF's dominance over the vast western territory and effectively severing a critical aid corridor for a population staring down famine.We are witnessing, in real-time, the unraveling of a social fabric woven over centuries, as militias accused of mass executions, sexual violence, and crimes against humanity now hold the keys to a city once central to the genocide two decades ago. The world's response has been a chorus of condemnations that ring hollow in the ears of those now sleeping under thorn trees, their stories a litany of trauma—of watching neighbors executed, of homes looted and burned, of a childhood once again stolen by the sound of artillery and the sight of armed men.The international community's failure to deploy a robust, protective force or exert meaningful leverage on the warring generals has created a vacuum where atrocity thrives, a grim lesson from history we seem determined to repeat. The consequences will ripple far beyond Sudan's borders, straining refugee camps in Chad and South Sudan to breaking point and fueling a regional crisis of instability and despair. This is more than a military victory; it is the consolidation of a reign of terror, and the 60,000 who have fled are not just a statistic—they are the bleeding edge of a human catastrophe we are all, by our inaction, complicit in creating.

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