How Sudan’s war on civilians pushed global violence to levels unseen

Displaced women in Sudan on, January 15, 2026.

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El Fasher had fallen. Then the killing began in October 2025.

Patients were shot in hospital wards. The wounded were executed where they lay. Women and girls were dragged from shelters and raped at gunpoint. Humanitarian workers vanished. Families fled into the desert carrying whatever they could.