RSF fighters gang-raped women and girls during their siege and takeover of El Fasher, the UN documented, targeting non-Arab communities by ethnicity

The UN Secretary-General's 2026 report on conflict-related sexual violence (covering January-December 2025) found that during the Rapid Support Forces' offensive on the Zamzam displacement camp near El Fasher between 10 April and 20 May 2025, at least 77 women, 28 girls and 3 boys were subjected to rape, gang rape and sexual slavery, mostly along escape routes. When the RSF and allied militia captured El Fasher itself in October 2025, the UN documented 'widespread, systematic and coordinated' mass and gang rapes in public, primarily targeting women and girls from non-Arab communities, especially the Zaghawa, and people perceived to support the Sudanese Armed Forces.