Darfur Union in the UK:Sudan’s Humanitarian Catastrophe in Al‑Fashir: Siege, Starvation and Impuni

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Sudan’s Humanitarian Catastrophe in Al‑Fashir: Siege, Starvation and Impunity

Introduction

What is happening in Al-Fashir is not merely a humanitarian emergency, it is a calculated, methodical act of war by starvation. For nearly two years, the people of Al-Fashir have lived under siege by the UAE-backed RSF militia, cut off from food, medicine, and aid. This is not a by-product of war; it is its very strategy. With each failed attempt to seize the city militarily, the RSF retaliates by bombarding civilians and tightening the noose on humanitarian lifelines. Yet the world watches in silence, with no airlifts, no accountability, and no urgency. The time to act is not tomorrow, it is already overdue.

What is happening in Al-Fashir is a transnational war of extermination. At the centre stands the UAE-backed RSF militia, whose siege of the city has turned starvation into a weapon. Yet, this is no longer just a Sudanese conflict. The battlefield is flooded with foreign mercenaries, recruited, funded, and transported by the UAE, transforming Sudan into the epicentre of a foreign-engineered genocide.

1. A City Under Siege and Starving

Al‑Fashir, capital of North Darfur, also the capital of the region, is enduring nearly two years of genocidal Siege by the UAE-backed RSF militia. The city has been cut off completely from food, fuel, and medical supplies. Markets are empty and aid convoys regularly blocked or looted. Healthcare facilities operate at a fraction of capacity. In many neighbourhoods, children go days without a meal. Civilian coping mechanisms have collapsed, any relief is fleeting, makeshift and insufficient.

2. Shelling at Random and No Safe Places

Even as starvation sets in, the RSF continues indiscriminate shelling of civilian areas. Homes, markets, and clinics come under attack, often within hours of ceasefires supposedly agreed at national or tribal levels. There is no refuge. Neighborhoods such as Al‑Wadi remain under constant bombardment—further deepening trauma, displacing families within the already besieged city.

3. Silence and Inaction from the World

While UN agencies and NGOs demand access, the international community has failed to deliver anything beyond words. There has been no sustained humanitarian airlift, no protected corridors into Darfur cities. Despite decades of pledges to “never abandon Sudan”, nobody acts when ports are closed and borders sealed. The lack of international creativity in aid delivery is compounding hunger with death, and doing so in plain sight.

4. A Broader Pattern of Forced Emptiness

Al‑Fashir is not an isolated case. Cities such as Al‑Obeid, Babanusa, and others are under siege or bombarded in the same strategy, to empty them, displace civilians, and impose a new demographic reality. This is part of a deliberate attempt, closely backed by the UAE and their proxies, to carve out a fragmented Sudan, with Darfur turned into a controlled hinterland.

5. The “Taasis” Government: A Political Cover-Up

In response, RSF and its backers have promoted a puppet administration called “Taasis”, with Hemeti as president and SPLM-N leaders aligned as deputies, supposedly to govern Darfur. This so-called government is a façade, it controls nothing, administers nothing, but exists to justify Emirati occupation and looting of health, gold, and state infrastructure in occupied zones.

6.Foreign Mercenaries and the Globalisation of Genocide

The war in Sudan is being fought not just by RSF fighters, but by a growing network of foreign mercenaries, deployed and funded by the United Arab Emirates to ensure the RSF’s dominance. Evidence from battlefronts, confessions from captured fighters, and video footage confirms the presence of:
• Chadian and Central African Republic (CAR) fighters,
• Somali recruits from Puntland,
• Colombian mercenaries transported via Libya,
• Libyan militias linked to Khalifa Haftar.

These fighters are not hidden. They appear in RSF propaganda videos, and many captured combatants have confirmed their origins and contracts. Their deployment underscores that this war is not about internal Sudanese disputes but about a broader plan, executed by the UAE, to crush resistance and take control of Sudan’s land and resources through a militarised and externally fuelled genocidal strategy.

This internationalisation of the conflict is a red line. It confirms beyond doubt that what is unfolding is no longer a domestic crisis but a foreign-led war of annihilation.

7. A Call for Urgent International Action

The situation demands immediate, uncompromising responses:
• Unconditional aid access and resumption of humanitarian flow, including UN-led air corridors into Al‑Fashir
• Ceasefire enforcement backed by a neutral international monitoring mechanism
• Sanctions on UAE officials and RSF leaders responsible for sponsoring genocide
• Independent investigations and war crimes inquiries into RSF strategy of killing by starvation and siege
• Immediate international investigation into the recruitment and deployment of foreign mercenaries by the UAE to support RSF operations, including sanctions against private military contractors and facilitators involved in this transnational war effort

Darfur Union in the UK declares:

“The people of Al‑Fashir are not statistics, they are hosts of trauma and hunger under a war machine backed by foreign power. We call on the international community: show creativity or face complicity. Let no child starve in silence. Let no state remain unaccountable.”

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