Signs of latest massacres of civilians in Darfur are visible from space

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : In an earlier assault in 2023, the RSF killed an estimated 10,000 to 15,000 civilians in the Darfur city of El Geneina, UN reports said.
44% : Jacqueline Parlevliet, a spokesperson for the UN refugee agency, said those who fled El Fasher this week have reported a wave of ethnically targeted killings, often aimed at the most vulnerable people, including people with disabilities who are unable to escape the city. El Fasher, once a city of about 1.5 million people, contained about 250,000 people when the RSF captured it this week.
42% : For more than two years, Mr. Raymond and other experts have warned the United Nations Security Council that massacres were looming in El Fasher if the RSF captured the city.
32% : About 26,000 fled the city on Sunday and Monday, according to UN agencies, but most are still trapped inside the famine-stricken city, without food or medical care, while relief supplies continue to be blocked.

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