To frame El Fasher within the timeworn narrative of collective international failure avoids the darker truth. In July 2023, after an ethnic slaughter in nearby Geneina, western intelligence agencies suggested El Fasher would face worse. The US state department blocked intelligence assessments relating to El Fasher that would have triggered an intervention to prevent genocide. Investigators assembled compelling publicly unavailable evidence that the attack on Geneina was an ethnic rampage: El Fasher was next. Yet sources say US internal weapons assessments – shared with the UK – confirm El Fasher was routinely attacked with UAE-supplied weaponry.

Source: The Guardian March 25, 2026 17:33 UTC