Human rights conditions in the Darfur region during May 2025 continue to deteriorate due to the ongoing armed conflict between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the Sudanese Armed Forces, and their allied parties.
Security incidents linked to the war and the absence of good governance are escalating, including: extrajudicial killings, targeting of residential neighborhoods and civilian infrastructure such as markets, health, and educational facilities, threats, gunfire in civilian gatherings, theft and looting under threat of weapons, sieges preventing civilians from accessing food, water, and healthcare, child recruitment, artillery and aerial shelling, arbitrary arrests, imprisonment of civilians without clear reasons, restrictions on women’s activities, and other incidents indicating worsening security conditions across the five Darfur states, four of which are controlled by the RSF.