Summary

El Fasher, the last army-controlled city in Darfur, is currently surrounded by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Should the city fall, the RSF will gain control over an area roughly the size of France, along with Sudan’s borders with Libya, Chad, Central African Republic, and South Sudan. But it would spell disaster for the approximate 800,000 people sheltering there, who would be faced with the immediate prospect of genocidal violence without any feasible routes of escape.