RSF assassinated North Darfur senior aid official arrested three ministers
November 14, 2025 (EL FASHER) – Official revealed on Friday that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) arrested three ministers in the North Darfur State government after seizing control of El Fasher. The RSF also assassinated the Humanitarian Aid Commissioner, Abbas Adam, and several members of his family while they were attempting to flee the city.
The RSF took control of El Fasher on Oct. 26, following fierce battles with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and their allies from armed movements that had lasted for more than a year.
An official in the North Darfur government told Sudan Tribune that the “RSF militia captured three members of the Council of Ministers, two of whom were transferred to Nyala, the capital of South Darfur State.”
He clarified that the list of detainees includes health minister Dr. Khadija Musa, youth and sports minister Mohamed Suleiman Jibril, a leader in the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Minni Arko Minnawi, in addition to environment minister Al-Tayeb Baraka, a leader in the Justice and Equality Movement led by Gibril Ibrahim.
The official pointed out that the RSF arrested a large number of civil servants and members of the Health Emergency Committee in North Darfur.
The official stated that their confirmed information indicates the liquidation of the humanitarian aid commissioner, Abbas Adam, and several members of his family while they were attempting to escape.
Following their control of the historical capital of the Darfur region, the RSF committed widespread violations affecting thousands of civilians, including killing, looting, arrest, and forced displacement—crimes that have met with broad local, regional, and international condemnation and rejection.
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Local sources told Sudan Tribune that the number of civilian detention sites in El Fasher city has risen to about 16 centres distributed in various directions inside the city.
They indicated that these centres are holding large numbers of citizens, including tribal leaders, government employees, and medical personnel.
According to the sources, the spokesman for the Founding Sudan Alliance (Ta’sis), who is present in al-Fasher, directed the release of dozens of medical personnel detained at the Children’s Hospital east of the city, to utilize them in supporting the collapsing health sector and curbing the spread of epidemics, especially cholera, which has begun to spread alarmingly inside the detention centres and displacement sites where citizens still reside.
The most prominent detention sites in the capital of North Darfur include: the land port headquarters east of the city, Al-Rasheed Student Residence, El Fasher University, and the Saudi Hospital, in addition to another location in the Awlad Al-Reef neighbourhood. Thousands of others are gathered in the town of Gurni, which the RSF had previously designated as a site for collecting those fleeing the city.
The RSF forces are compelling the detainees, especially young men, to record videos and audio messages sent through the soldiers’ phones to their relatives, demanding payment of ransoms ranging between five million and 100 million Sudanese pounds for their release.