…we have this in Sudan, via Sara Monetta’s article for NBC news…
The blood is visible from space as bodies pile up from a slaughter unprecedented in recent times.
Surrounded by a sand barrier built during an 18-month siege, most of the 250,000 people in el-Fasher, in western Sudan, have been trapped as paramilitary fighters from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have rampaged through the city. Experts estimate tens of thousands have been killed in the past week.
With the key regional capital under a communications blackout, it has been left to eyewitness accounts as well as satellite imagery and video shared on social media to reveal the scale of what is unfolding in el-Fasher and the surrounding Darfur region, prompting humanitarian organizations to warn that the northeast African nation is returning to its genocidal past.
NBC News spoke to one of the few residents who made it out.
After the Sudanese military withdrew from the city, Mutaz Mohamed Musa said he joined thousands of people attempting to leave el-Fasher on Saturday. But almost immediately they came under shellfire, before they were surrounded by RSF fighters in pickup trucks, he said.
“They opened direct fire on civilians,” Musa, 42, said in a voice note Thursday, adding that it was “extremely intense and people scattered in all directions” as they were chased and run over by the trucks.
He said he thought only about 150 people made it past the berm — the sand wall built around el-Fasher by the RSF as it laid siege to the city.
…and this, from Jordan King’s article for Newsweek:
More than 7,000 Christians had been killed in Nigeria during the first 220 days of 2025, a civil-society watchdog said.
This is an average of 35 killings a day, according to the recent report published by the Nigeria-based human-rights NGO International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law (Intersociety).
Nigeria has long been an epicenter of Christian persecution, with more Christians killed for their faith in Nigeria than in the rest of the world combined, according to human rights organization Open Doors, which monitors the persecution of Christians around the globe.
The violence has displaced at least 12 million Christians since 2009, according to Intersociety. That year marked the start of Boko Haram’s insurgency to establish a caliphate in Nigeria and the broader Sahel.
In the 16 years since, Intersociety estimates that 189,000 civilians have been killed—125,000 of whom were Christians and 60,000 liberal Muslims.
Here’s a thought: maybe the UN can take a bit of time out from its busy schedule of sanctioning Israel for anything and everything, to go after these to countries a tad more aggressively.
Don’t hold your breath waiting.
