Al Jazeera Fault Lines: 'No Exit From El Fasher' — Documentary Documents RSF Atrocities Post-Siege

Al Jazeera's Fault Lines documentary unit published 'No Exit from El Fasher,' a landmark investigative documentary on the RSF siege and aftermath in El Fasher — the last SAF-held Darfur capital until its fall in October 2025. The documentary features survivor testimonies from Zaghawa and Fur community members who escaped El Fasher during and after the RSF's siege, documenting RSF shooting civilians on escape roads out of the city, systematic looting, the deliberate destruction of the Teaching Hospital, and ethnically targeted killings following the RSF's capture of the city. The title 'No Exit' refers to the testimony of civilians who described being shot at when attempting to flee — trapped between the RSF siege on one side and the scorched humanitarian landscape on the other. The documentary provides audiovisual documentation of crimes that were previously reported by text-based sources including HRW, Radio Dabanga, and the UN Fact-Finding Mission. Survivor accounts in the film include testimony of RSF fighters explicitly identifying victims by their ethnicity (Zaghawa and Fur). The 18-month siege, from May 2024 to October 2025, was one of the longest and deadliest urban sieges of any conflict in Africa since the Algerian Civil War. The UN FFM found 'hallmarks of genocide' in RSF's El Fasher operations (Feb 2026); the Al Jazeera documentary constitutes important public-record documentation of the same events.