Tawila, Sudan, March 22, 2026 (AFP) - 'They beat us with whips': Sudan RSF detainees tell of horrors in El-Fasher

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2026-03-22

In the suffocating darkness of a sealed shipping container, every thud signalled to Ibrahim Noureldin that one more detainee had died in the crush as Sudanese paramilitary fighters kept forcing more men inside. Thousands of people are estimated to have been detained in the Rapid Support Forces' (RSF) October takeover of North Darfur's El-Fasher, a battle that a UN investigation found bore the "hallmarks of genocide". "When people died of thirst a......

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