Another Genocide Is Unfolding in Darfur, El Fasher, While the Dangerous RSF Leader Is Welcomed in Washington, 27th October 2025

27th October, 2025

Another Genocide Is Unfolding in Darfur, El Fasher, While the Dangerous RSF Leader Is Welcomed in Washington, DC

El Fasher: – On October 27, the RSF launched an unprecedented Genocidal attack in El-Fasher, the historical Capital of North Darfur. Thousands of civilians have been reported killed, and hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee while they are still attacked and massacred by RSF soldiers as they flee for their lives..El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, is being bombarded and overrun by RSF forces, who are attacking civilian neighborhoods, hospitals, and displacement camps with drones, missiles, and heavy artillery. The RSF has now claimed control of much of El Fasher, with indiscriminate shelling and mass murder on ethnic bases, forcing thousands to flee and leaving countless civilians dead. Women and children are being hunted as they attempt to escape, entire camps are burned, and famine has tightened its grip under siege conditions. Entire neighborhoods in El Fasher have been reduced to ashes. Satellite imagery and eyewitness reports describe mass graves, destroyed hospitals, and families dying of hunger under siege.

These attacks came after nearly two years of strict siege, restricting food supply and other survival means, using starvation as a weapon of war.

Amid the catastrophe unfolding in Elfasher, we are dismayed and profoundly outraged to learned that the United States government has permitted a delegation from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the very force responsible for genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in Darfur and across Sudan, to travel to Washington for a U.S.-hosted cease-fire “talk.” Among those responsible is Algony Hamdan Dagalo, the youngest brother of Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (commonly known as “Hemedti”), who was designated by the U.S. for genocide, war crimes, and ethnic cleansing.

This decision of Washington to host the RSF while the entire city of El Fasher burns emboldens the perpetrators to continue killing with impunity. Allowing RSF representatives to enter U.S. territory directly violates U.S. laws and sanctions taken against the genocide currently happening in Sudan. We wish to remind the state department and the Trump administration that under US National Laws, any foreign person responsible for or alleged to have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and the act of torture are deemed inadmissible

On January 7, 2025, the U.S. Secretary of State officially determined that the RSF had committed genocide in Darfur, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
The U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the RSF’s leader, Dagalo, under Executive Order 14098 for “gross human-rights violations in Darfur, namely the mass rape of civilians by RSF soldiers under his control.”
U.S. law, including the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act and other sanctions and visa-ban laws, prohibits entry into the United States of individuals responsible for human-rights violations, war crimes, and genocide.

By inviting or hosting such a figure in Washington, the U.S. government undermines US national laws and its own sanctions regime, sends a message of impunity, enabling and betraying the victims of the Darfur genocide.

While the RSF delegation is being welcomed in the U.S., civilians in Darfur continue to be slaughtered and starved. Reports from El Fasher describe indiscriminate attacks on camps, women and children fleeing, and famine used as a weapon of war. These acts follow the same genocidal pattern witnessed in the early 2000s. The U.S.’s hosting of the RSF delegation at this time acts as a green light to perpetrators: they are emboldened to continue without fear of real consequences.

DWAG immediately calls on the U.S. Administration to:

Immediately rescind visas issued to RSF leaders and refuse any further entry to individuals or delegations linked to RSF atrocities.
Publicly reaffirm that those responsible for genocide and war crimes will not be granted diplomatic legitimacy or access to its territory.
Deny RSF leadership any platform on U.S. soil; such meetings should be relocated outside the United States unless genuine accountability steps are in place.
Link any engagement with Sudanese actors to clear benchmarks of accountability, civilian protection, and reparations for victims of Darfur.
DWAG calls on Congress and international partners to enforce the sanctions regime, blockade all avenues of diplomatic normalisation for perpetrators, and ensure that justice is not undermined by negotiation without consequence.

Welcoming a delegation of the RSF to Washington while atrocities continue unabated in Darfur sets a dangerous precedent: that you can massacre civilians, commit rape as a weapon of war, and still be treated as a partner by the world’s most powerful nation. The people of Darfur, women, children, and entire communities, are watching. The United States must stand for justice, not convenience.

Sincerely,

Niemat Ahmadi,

Founder and President, Darfur Women Action Group

1629 K St. NW Suite #300

Washington, DC 20006, United States