Qualla: El Fasher massacre https://qualla.com/el-fasher-massacre en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/6/j/el-fasher-massacre-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: El Fasher massacre https://qualla.com/el-fasher-massacre El Fasher massacre: Introduction https://qualla.com/el-fasher-massacre/ Photo credit MartinKassemJ120, CC0. Sheldon Yett, the UNICEF representative in Sudan, reached for the comparison carefully, and then said it anyway: what was happening in El Fasher resembled the Rwandan genocide. The city in North Darfur had been besieged by the Rapid Support Forces for roughly eighteen months when, on 27 October 2025, its defenses finally broke. In the days that followed, witnesses spoke of men shot by the hundreds on single streets, of women raped in their homes, of people executed for ransom and dumped in the Wadi. The United Nations had warned for months that mass atrocities were imminent. When they came, they came against a population that had nowhere left to run: Fur, Masalit, Zaghawa, and other Darfuris who had already survived the 2003 genocide and the siege, and who now found themselves inside a city being emptied by men with rifles and drones. This story is about those people.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/6/j/el-fasher-massacre-wp/sd6j-el-fasher-massacre-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full El Fasher massacre: Who Was in the City https://qualla.com/el-fasher-massacre/ Photo credit Jeremy Chivers, CC BY-SA 4.0. El Fasher's population before the siege was estimated at 252,000, down from 264,734 in 2008 but swollen by displacement from the surrounding countryside. The city had been the last major urban center in Darfur held by Sudanese government forces and aligned militias, and for peopl...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/6/j/el-fasher-massacre-wp/sd6j-el-fasher-massacre-who-was-in-the-city.mp3 0:06 2 full El Fasher massacre: Evidence From Above https://qualla.com/el-fasher-massacre/ Photo credit Jeremy Chivers, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale School of Public Health tracked what was happening using satellite imagery, because the ground had become unreachable. In reports published on 27 and 28 October, then again in December, the HRL documented mass killing and, later, systematic e...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/6/j/el-fasher-massacre-wp/sd6j-el-fasher-massacre-evidence-from-above.mp3 0:06 3 full El Fasher massacre: Sudan and the World https://qualla.com/el-fasher-massacre/ Photo credit Jeremy Chivers, CC BY-SA 4.0. The United States senior advisor for Arab and African affairs, Massad Boulos, called the attacks abhorrent. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking after a G7 meeting on 12 November 2025, acknowledged that murder, rape, and sexual violence had occurred, and called for internatio...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/6/j/el-fasher-massacre-wp/sd6j-el-fasher-massacre-sudan-and-the-world.mp3 0:06 4 full El Fasher massacre: What the Darfuris Lost https://qualla.com/el-fasher-massacre/ Photo credit Jeremy Chivers, CC BY-SA 4.0. To understand the weight of El Fasher's fall, you have to go back. The Darfur genocide that began in 2003 killed an estimated 300,000 people and displaced roughly 2.7 million, mostly Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa, and mostly at the hands of Janjaweed militias that would later be reco...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/d/6/j/el-fasher-massacre-wp/sd6j-el-fasher-massacre-what-the-darfuris-lost.mp3 0:06 5 full El Fasher massacre: Refusing the Normal https://qualla.com/el-fasher-massacre/ Photo credit Jeremy Chivers, CC BY-SA 4.0. Salih Mahmoud Abdelmoneim wrote in Al Jazeera in December 2025 that the world must refuse a new normal of mass atrocities in Darfur. The essay was not rhetorical. Sudan's war has killed an estimated 150,000 people and displaced 12 million since April 2023; El Fasher is one episod...

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