Nearly 2,500 people, including doctors, are held by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Al Fasher in western Sudan, a local medical group said on Monday.

In a statement, the Sudan Doctors Network said 20 doctors, including four women, over 1,470 civilians and 907 military personnel are detained by the paramilitary group “in extremely dire humanitarian and health conditions” in multiple detention facilities in Al Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state.

The group said 370 women and 426 children are among those held by the paramilitary group.

It said the detainees are held in various locations, including Shalla Prison, service facilities such as a children’s hospital as well as containers.

Suffering

The network warned that those held “are subjected to grave abuses, including field executions,” and are suffering from injuries caused by shelling without receiving necessary medical care.

Local and international institutions have reported that the RSF’s takeover of Al Fasher in October 2025 coincided with massacres against civilians, amid warnings of a potential geographic fragmentation of the country.

Sudan has been gripped by conflict since April 2023 between the army and the RSF. A war that has killed tens of thousands, displaced around 13 million people and pushed parts of the country toward famine, in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.