Source: Christian Solidarity Worldwide, October 3, 2025
CSW has joined 100 organizations and humanitarian actors in calling for the establishment of safe, voluntary, and dignified passage for civilians trapped in the city of El Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur State, where an estimated 260,000 people, including 130,000 children, have endured a 17-month siege by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Reports from those who have managed to leave the city indicate that men and boys are being targeted and killed on the road out of the city, making it more dangerous for them to leave than to stay.
The city has been under siege since April 2024, despite a United Nations Security Council resolution calling on the RSF to lift it. In April 2025, the RSF seized the Abu Souk and Zamzam camps for internally displaced persons. The two camps form the largest IDP settlement in Sudan, housing over 700,000 people between them. Both camps have been turned into military bases by the RSF.
Places of worship have been targeted during the siege. Between May and September 2025, the Sudan Episcopal Church was hit six times by RSF shelling. On September 19, at least 70 people were killed when the RSF attacked a mosque near the Abu Souk Camp.
Read the full story and please pray. According to a later report, at least 60 people, including 22 children, were killed in an attack on one of the IDP camps on October 10. The people have no safe way to get out.
Read or watch a video about an effort to free people enslaved in Sudan. Since 1995, they have rescued more than 160,000 people (video just under 13 minutes long).