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Khartoum (Agenzia Fides) – Direct attacks on civilians, mass displacement, sexual assaults, deterioration of health care, and the collapse of basic services continue to characterize a Sudan rocked by serious human rights violations.
"In August 2025, a wave of violations of various kinds against civilians occurred, particularly in Darfur," states the latest report by the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) on the human rights situation in Sudan.
"These attacks led to mass displacement, with civilians struggling to reach safe corridors. In addition, they faced a health catastrophe due to the almost complete collapse of health services. The nature of the violations suggests that they are systematic and linked to ethnic, political, and geographical affiliation," the document states. "Without effective measures, genocide and crimes against humanity will continue to escalate. Current violations are not limited to direct killings, but also include strategies such as starvation, mass terror, forced displacement, and systematic rape."
In recent weeks, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), waging a bloody civil war against the army, have intensified their attacks on El Fasher, the last major city in the Darfur region still controlled by the army (see Fides, 4/9/2025).
The civil war in Sudan began in April 2023 (see Fides, 17/4/2023), and since then, fighting and attacks have displaced 12 million people (out of a population of about 50 million), left at least 150,000 dead, and led to one of the worst humanitarian crises of the 21st century.
In March of this year, the army managed to recapture the capital Khartoum (see Fides, 21/3/2025), which had been besieged for two years and divided between the two factions. In April, militiamen killed more than 1,500 people in a brutal attack on the Zamzam refugee camp in Darfur (see Fides, 14/4/2025): one of the worst massacres since the beginning of the war, forcing more than half a million people to leave the region and flee to El Fasher, where there is a lack of everything. (AP) (Agenzia Fides, 19/9/2025)
