Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what's going on

[Jilly_in_VA]

It unfolded in plain sight over 18 months. The city of El Fasher in the Darfur region of Sudan, besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), fell to the militia group last week, and what has followed is a catastrophe.

Mass killings are under way. There are reports that in one maternity hospital alone almost 500 people – patients and their families – were killed. The few that managed to escape tell of summary executions of civilians. The RSF has embarked on a killing spree of civilians so severe that images of blood saturating the ground have been picked up by satellite. The speed and intensity of the killings in the immediate aftermath of the fall of El Fasher has already been compared by war monitors to the first 24 hours of the Rwandan genocide.

This is the culmination of a campaign that had walled in the population of the city – hundreds of thousands of people – and reduced it to starvation. Those who attempted to flee risked death and rape, and those that remained were bombed and surviving on nothing more than animal feed.

El Fasher was the Sudanese military’s last remaining stronghold in Darfur, and this past week marks a grave turning point in Sudan’s war. Now two and a half years long, the fight for control of the country between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the RSF has been brutal and relentless.

Previously partners in government, the two parties ruled in a tense coalition with civilians after a popular revolution overthrew president Omar al-Bashir in 2019. The parties then turned on the civilians, before turning on each other. When it came, their confrontation was explosive; a revelation of just how much the RSF (created by Bashir from the ranks of Janjaweed fighters to protect him and fight his wars in Darfur) had amassed power and resources in the shadows. The war that started in April 2023 was not between the military and an upstart militia, but two armies, both with arsenals, income streams, thousands of troops, and external supply lines.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/03/blood-spilled-sudan-el-fasher-space-rsf-uae-darfur

Does anyone care? At all?

[msongs]

1. one wonders what the African Union is doing about this. nt

[PatSeg]

2. There is clearly something radically wrong

with our species. The older I get, the less I understand.

[canetoad]

8. For a while

I've believed that we are a mutation - not a good one.

[PatSeg]

9. Wow, that was a word that popped

in my head when I wrote that comment. Perhaps we (or a big percentage of us) are some kind of mutation. You see it occasionally in the animal kingdom, but it is a very small percentage of an entire group and the rest of their species tends to deal with them appropriately.

[enid602]

3. No blockade of aid

There’s plenty of aid going to the region. Thankfully it’s not being held up by govt.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. I'm not sure what you're saying

Famine tightens grip on Sudan, with civilians trapped and aid blocked

Conditions for civilians remain desperate. Following the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia’s takeover of El Fasher last week after more than 500 days of siege, the UN says hundreds of civilians – including humanitarian workers – have been killed, and many others are trapped behind barricades.

The city remains sealed off, with food, medicine and relief supplies blocked despite urgent appeals for access.

The UN’s humanitarian office, OCHA, has called this obstruction “unacceptable” and urged immediate, safe passage for aid convoys.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/11/1166253

Sudan's military expels top UN food aid officials as conflict escalates

Sudan's military government has ordered two senior officials at the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) to leave the country amid widespread famine sparked by a gruelling civil war that erupted in April 2023.

The WFP said directors of its Sudan operation were declared "personae non grata" and told to go within 72 hours, without explanation.
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Although the military government has not given a reason for the expulsions, it has previously accused aid groups of breaking local laws and releasing misleading reports on famine conditions.

The government said the expulsion will not affect the country's cooperation with the WFP, state news agency Suna reported.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yp2v4n1d5o

[canetoad]

5. The UAE is sponsoring the masacres

Word on the street is that Andrew Windsor is strongly considering taking a mansion to inhabit in Abu Dhabi. I hope Charles puts a stop on this.

[sarisataka]

6. I think you have your answer

Does anyone care? At all?- not really

[Scrivener7]

7. Yes. But then what?