Social media platforms were flooded with video clips that their publishers claimed were recent and related to the battles of the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces in the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state in the west of the country.
The spread of the clips coincided with the military developments in El Fasher, which the Rapid Support announced its control of, including the headquarters of the Sixth Infantry Division in the city, which was the last point of army control in the Darfur region.
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The clips are flowing on platforms at a rapid pace, bearing exciting titles and contradicting in content between those who confirm the city’s steadfastness and those who claim its fall, so that the truth is mixed with visual and informational misinformation on digital platforms about what is happening in El Fasher.
The Al Jazeera Verification team followed the threads of the most prominent visual materials circulating, with the aim of dismantling their sources and revealing their truth, as well as determining their temporal and spatial context and showing their correct context.
Safe evacuation
Coinciding with the intensification of battles inside the city, the Al Jazeera Verification team monitored the participation of accounts affiliated with and close to the Rapid Support Forces in promoting a unified narrative on social media sites, stating that the forces secured the exit of hundreds of El Fasher residents to safe areas, after the army and joint forces used them as “human shields” before their withdrawal from the city.
But the visual analysis conducted by our team of a number of clips circulating – especially on the TikTok platform – revealed a clear contradiction with that narrative.
Nobody showed up Clips Posted on the TikTok account of a Rapid Support employee on October 26, there is a scene of an elderly man wearing blood-soaked clothes walking among civilians who were displaced from the city, which may indicate that they were subjected to violations.
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As our observation has proven For video clips Taken by members of the Rapid Support Forces in El Fasher, it documents beating a number of detainees with sticks, insulting them, and likening them to animals, which confirms that they were subjected to violations.
Update from North Darfur
October 26,2025,
A complete collapse of human rights has been reported in North Darfur State, particularly around El Fasher. As of this morning, the Rapid Support Forces #RSF reportedly took full control of the Headquarters of six Sudanese Armed… pic.twitter.com/ZAD0uhL7Y3
— DARFUR NETWORK FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (@DNforHR) October 26, 2025
A squad leader was captured
Amid the wave of digital misinformation, the name of Major General Muhammad Ahmed Al-Khader, commander of the Sixth Infantry Division in the city of El Fasher, emerged as one of the most prominent military leaders whose accounts and publications on the platforms claimed that they were captured by the Rapid Support Forces during the last hours of the battles.
The moment the commander of the 6th Infantry Division, Major General Mohamed Ahmed Al-Khader, was arrested in El Fasher.#Al-Fasher#NorthDarfur#Sudan pic.twitter.com/PSYUdRwBVo
– Motasem Abdelrahman (@MotasemAbd0) October 26, 2025
Accounts affiliated with the Rapid Support circulated several video clips claiming to document the moment of his arrest, and these allegations spread widely on platforms such as “X” and “Facebook”, where they were circulated as evidence of the collapse of the last lines of defense for El Fasher.
But the Al Jazeera Investigation team compared this Viewer With other pictures and video clips in which the division commander appeared in various events, and the visual analysis showed that they did not completely match the facial wrinkles and the size of the nose, as the prominent leader did not appear in these videos, contrary to what the Rapid Support media platforms claimed, and the army did not announce through any of its official accounts information confirming the validity of this story.
For its part, the “Coordination of El Fasher Resistance Committees” denied on its official Facebook page the veracity of the circulating news, stressing that all the leaders of the army, the joint forces, and the popular resistance, including Major General Muhammad Ahmed Al-Khader, are fine and are managing military operations on the ground.
The coordination described these allegations as part of a “misinformation campaign” led by the Rapid Support Forces and accounts supporting them.
Freeing prisoners
On October 24, accounts affiliated with the Rapid Support Forces circulated another video clip that they claimed documented “the liberation of dozens of citizens from the prisons of the joint forces” in the “First Class” neighborhood in the city of El Fasher, accusing what they described as “mercenary movements” of using civilians as human shields and outbidding them by photographing them inside detention centers as if they were starving and at risk of death.
The amount of detained citizens in the first-class neighborhoods of El Fasher who were liberated today from joint prisons indicates one fact, which is that mercenary movements use these civilians as human shields in order to outbid them and photograph them from inside starvation camps and show them as dying of hunger.
The funny thing is that most… pic.twitter.com/sYJWBW9nLq
– Al-Fadil Mansour (@ElfadilMans) October 24, 2025
However, reverse search techniques conducted by the “Al Jazeera Verify” team revealed that the aforementioned clip is not recent and is not related to the current events in El Fasher, as an old version of it published on May 2, 2025 on the “X” platform showed the moment of the exit of dozens of prisoners who were released from the prison of the city of Nahud in West Kordofan state by members of the Rapid Support Forces.
The terrorist Rapid Support militia releases prisoners from the prison in the city of Nahud in West Kordofan state #Sudan pic.twitter.com/L3BplBIcm1
— Sudan News
(@Sudan_tweet) May 2, 2025
The steadfastness of the army
A video clip also spread widely, and verified accounts on the “X” platform claimed that it showed members of the joint forces – allied with the Sudanese army – reassuring the Sudanese people that the city of El Fasher would not fall, following the fierce battles that lasted for hours between the two sides.
We have received now Video from inside #Al-Fasher Members of the Joint Forces reassure the Sudanese people that the city will not fall pic.twitter.com/jADZPakdQ3
— Hamdto (@Hamdtoo_mh) October 26, 2025
However, the reverse search process showed that the video was previously published on October 6 on the “X” platform, which confirms that it is old. We were also able to verify the identity of the videographer, and it turned out that he is Mutawakkil Ali Wakil, a member of the media committee of the joint force.
El Fasher heroes confirm that things are under control#good #Sudan pic.twitter.com/JubqIpOz0b
– Taiba Satellite Channel (@TaybaSD) October 6, 2025
Clashes continue
Arab accounts re-shared a video that they claimed documented the violent clashes that took place yesterday, Sunday, between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, accompanied by the phrase: “Al-Fasher is the barrier and the rock in which the conspiracies and dreams of the militias are dismantled, and the city will remain difficult for them.”
Sudan, Statement, “North Darfur State – El Fasher.
(O you who have believed, be patient and patient, and be firm and fear God that you may succeed.)
At this important and critical stage on Sunday morning, October 26, 2025, and at a time when the people of El Fasher have no last fortress or refuge other than defense and the struggle for their dignity, except for weapons, and… pic.twitter.com/8B1f1kTDOQ– Faisal Al-Hamad Faisal (@ah64faisal) October 26, 2025
However, the Al Jazeera Investigation team reached… Old version From the same clip, published by an account affiliated with the Sudan Liberation Army on June 14, 2024, via Facebook, the scenes were circulated at the time as documenting “one of the most violent battles for El Fasher,” which confirms that it is not recent and has nothing to do with the city’s recent battles.
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