300 women killed, 25 raped by RSF in Al-Fashir, says Sudanese Minister

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Anadoly Agency
2 Nov 2025 20:13

Sudanese Minister Salima Ishaq accused the Rapid Support Forces of killing around 300 women and raping 25 others in Al-Fashir.

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An injured Sudanese woman who fled el-Fasher city, after Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region, rsits in a tent at a camp in Tawila, Sudan, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025 (AP Photo/Mohammed Bakry)

Sudanese Minister of State for Social Welfare, Salima Ishaq, stated that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed around 300 women and raped 25 others in the city of Al-Fashir, in the country’s southwest.

She explained that the RSF seized control of Al-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur State, on October 26, committing massacres against civilians according to local and international organizations, amid growing warnings of a deepening geographic division of the country.

In remarks to Anadolu Agency, Ishaq said that what happened in Al-Fashir was "similar to what took place in the city of Al-Geneina in 2023, but the crimes in Al-Geneina were not documented as extensively as those in Al-Fashir." She added that RSF fighters "committed 25 cases of rape, including acts of sexual violence against children in front of their mothers, who were later killed."

"The survivors are few along the road of death between Al-Fashir and the town of Tawila, and all of them are exposed to killing, torture, abuse, and rape," she warned, stressing that the RSF’s continued presence in Al-Fashir "will lead to the extermination of every human being in Darfur." Ishaq described the situation as "a systematic ethnic cleansing in which everyone is complicit through their silence."

The minister concluded by saying that "the Rapid Support Forces are not among the organizations that can be dealt with through appeals, diplomacy, or dialogue, because they do not understand that language."

El Fasher Besieged

The fall of El Fasher marks a major shift in the Sudan civil war, which began in 2023 between the RSF and its former allies in the Sudanese Armed Forces. According to the United Nations, the conflict has caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with more than 14 million people displaced and at least 150,000 killed.

The RSF, which evolved from the Janjaweed militias implicated in previous Darfur atrocities, has long faced accusations of genocide and systematic violence against civilians.

More than 26,000 people have fled El Fasher since late October, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), following the Rapid Support Forces’ takeover of the city. Meanwhile, UNICEF warns that around 130,000 children remain trapped amid intense fighting and shelling, facing “grave risks” including abductions, killings, maiming, and sexual violence.