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News Analysis
The world seems unable, or unwilling, to do much to stop a new struggle on an old battlefield, as atrocities sweep villages and towns.
Oct. 31, 2025Updated 6:25 p.m. ET
Two decades ago, the word “Darfur” rippled across the world as a symbol of unchecked atrocities in a distant land.
Today, it is happening again. Atrocities are sweeping its cities and villages. And once more, the world seems unable, or unwilling, to do much to stop it.
Since the city of El Fasher in Sudan fell last weekend to a paramilitary force, images and witness accounts have pointed to an unfolding massacre.
Residents were shot as they fled the city through fields. The head of the W.H.O. says that hundreds were killed in a day in the city’s last hospital. Videos show victims being casually executed.
Those who survive the arduous journey to Tawila, 40 miles away, where a few international aid groups operate, bring accounts of terror, starvation and death.
The paramilitaries, known as the Rapid Support Forces, or R.S.F., are descended from the lawless Janjaweed, predominantly Arab militias that terrorized Darfur in the early 2000s, accused of committing genocide. And the same ethnic rivalries that fueled the chaos in Darfur two decades ago seem to be driving many of the abuses today.
