Journalist reported from el-Fasher via the warfare, sharing the scenario on the bottom with a global viewers.
Revealed On 27 Oct 2025
Sudanese journalist Muammar Ibrahim has been detained by the Speedy Assist Forces (RSF) as they advanced in el-Fasher, elevating considerations about his security and prompting requires his launch.
The RSF detained the reporter on Sunday night, hours after the paramilitary drive claimed it had seized management of the besieged capital of North Darfur.
The RSF has been laying siege to el-Fasher for almost 18 months in a bid to take management of the Sudanese military’s final stronghold within the huge western area of Darfur.
A number of movies have been distributed of the captured journalist, a freelancer who contributed to Al Jazeera Mubasher.
In a single, Ibrahim says he was detained as he tried to go away el-Fasher and that he was being held by the RSF.
He’s seen surrounded by RSF fighters who jostle to seem and remark within the video. One masked fighter is seen off to 1 aspect.
Ibrahim declares he’s a impartial journalist, with loyalties to neither the Sudanese military nor the RSF.
One other video reveals Ibrahim crouching on the bottom, encircled by RSF fighters who immediate him to talk of being well-treated.
At one level, they cuff him on the pinnacle and level at some meat being minimize as much as one aspect, remarking: “You’ve been consuming ambaaz [animal feed] and now you’ll get a meal with meat.”
In a press release on Sunday night time, the Sudanese Journalists Syndicate expressed “its deep concern over the arrest”, including that it holds the RSF totally accountable for his security and calls for his “fast and unconditional launch”.
Ibrahim had reported from el-Fasher over the previous two years of warfare in Sudan, offering updates on the residing situations and developments on the bottom as the town suffered below the siege. Throughout that point, extreme starvation has stalked the town.
Ibrahim’s newest publish on social media early on Sunday morning learn: “#el-Fasher, could God preserve its individuals… pray for us”.
In accordance with the newest knowledge from the Worldwide Group for Migration, 1,070 individuals had been displaced from el-Fasher in simply two days, between October 19 and 21, on account of the combating.
#الفاشر حفظ الله أهلها .. الدعوات
— معمر إبراهيم السوداني Muammar Ibrahim (@MUAMMAR_SUD) October 26, 2025
Translation: #el-Fasher, could God preserve its individuals… pray for us.
