Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC) warns that Sudan is witnessing an unprecedented escalation of atrocities against civilians, as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensify their assaults across North Darfur and North Kordofan.

In recent days, mass executions, systematic rape, and ethnically targeted violence have swept through both regions in what WJWC describes as a deliberate campaign of extermination, unfolding amid a disturbing international silence that borders on complicity.

WJWC affirms that the humanitarian situation has reached catastrophic proportions, with entire communities living under siege, starvation, and the imminent threat of genocide.

Mass Executions and Medical System Collapse in El Fasher

Information obtained by WJWC’s field monitoring teams from witnesses and medical professionals confirms that, on the evening of Sunday, October 26, RSF fighters carried out mass executions of dozens of civilians in El Fasher, targeting individuals based on their ethnicity.

RSF units also stormed and looted hospitals, pharmacies, and medical facilities, seizing or destroying critical supplies and equipment. As a result, El Fasher — besieged for over a year — now faces a near-total collapse of its healthcare system, leaving the wounded and sick without any access to treatment.

These findings are consistent with the Sudan Doctors Network, which described the massacre as “a full-blown act of ethnic cleansing.” Darfur’s governor, Minni Arko Minawi, has likewise sounded the alarm, warning of imminent massacres and famine if international protection is not urgently provided.

Massacres and Displacement in Bara

In the city of Barah, North Kordofan, WJWC’s observers documented mass executions, arbitrary arrests, widespread looting, and large-scale destruction following an RSF assault on October 25. The attack left the city in ruins, with communications and internet completely cut off, isolating survivors from the outside world.

Residents reported that hundreds of civilians were killed or remain missing, and that waves of displacement are spreading toward nearby villages amid severe food shortages and the absence of medical care.

The Sudanese Emergency Lawyers Association described what took place as a “horrific massacre that claimed the lives of hundreds of young men.” The accounts match UNITAMS’ latest warning of a “complete humanitarian collapse and the impossibility of delivering aid due to insecurity.”

Sudan’s Deepening Catastrophe

The United Nations briefing of October 24, 2025, confirmed that Sudan is enduring the worst humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world:

·       30 million people now depend on life-saving assistance,

·       9.6 million are internally displaced,

·       4.3 million have fled as refugees,

·       and 1.4 million children are at immediate risk of starvation.

The UN further documented that women and girls are subjected to systematic sexual violence, and that entire populations are being deliberately starved as part of the conflict’s tactics — evidence of warfare waged against civilians themselves.

A Pattern of Systematic Crimes

Women Journalists Without Chains affirms that what its teams have witnessed in El Fasher and Bara is part of a wider, systematic campaign of atrocities that the Rapid Support Forces have carried out since the war began in April 2023.

These crimes include mass killings, rape as a weapon of war, forced displacement, deliberate starvation, and identity-based persecution. Collectively, they amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity under the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

The organization holds the states and actors financing, arming, or politically shielding the RSF legally and morally responsible for the unfolding tragedy. The continued inaction of the international community, it warns, represents complicity through silence.

Urgent Calls to Action

WJWC calls on the United Nations, the African Union, the European Union, and the League of Arab States to act immediately and decisively to halt the atrocities and protect Sudan’s civilian population. The organization demands:

·       Immediate international intervention to stop the ongoing genocide in Darfur and Kordofan and ensure civilian protection.

·       The establishment of an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate, document, and refer perpetrators to the International Criminal Court.

·       The imposition of strict sanctions on all states, companies, and individuals financing or arming the RSF.

·       The urgent opening of safe humanitarian corridors to deliver aid, protect journalists and humanitarian workers, and guarantee independent media access.

·       The mobilization of emergency international funding for the humanitarian response plan, currently financed at only 25% of its required level.

Accountability and the Moral Test of the World

WJWC further calls on the United Nations and influential powers to take exceptional action commensurate with the scale of the crimes, and to hold to account those fueling the conflict through arms and financing, particularly the United Arab Emirates.

The organization stresses that treating such atrocities through political deals and power interests transforms the global community into partners in crime and strips international justice of its remaining credibility.

“What is unfolding in Sudan is not a civil war — it is a deliberate campaign of extermination,” WJWC stated. “Silence in the face of genocide is not neutrality; it is complicity. The crisis in Sudan is a test of the world’s conscience, and failure to act is a betrayal of humanity itself.”

Women Journalists Without Chains concludes that the duty to save Sudan’s civilians transcends politics or borders. It is a moral, legal, and humanitarian obligation that the international community must fulfill — before it is too late.

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Women Journalists Without Chains (WJWC)

October 27, 2025