The International Federation for Rights and Development (IFRD) has submitted an Article 15 communication to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) identifying Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan as the central figure in the transnational network that enabled the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to commit genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes during the capture of El-Fasher, North Darfur, in October 2025.
The communication documents how the RSF’s eighteen-month siege culminated in mass killings, systematic sexual violence, torture, enforced disappearances, attacks on hospitals and displacement sites, starvation of civilians, and ethnically targeted violence against non-Arab communities. It identifies senior RSF commanders, field perpetrators, and those responsible for sustaining the campaign beyond Sudan’s borders.
At the heart of the submission is Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The communication sets out evidence connecting him to the network that armed, financed, supplied, and sustained the RSF through mercenary deployment, illicit gold flows, financial structures, logistical channels, and media influence.
Accountability for Darfur cannot end with those who carried out the killings. Justice requires investigating those who made the atrocities possible.
IFRD calls on the ICC Prosecutor to preserve and assess financial records, satellite imagery, verified open-source investigations, communications, and video evidence. It further stresses that defection, political realignment, or amnesty must never shield those responsible for the crimes in El-Fasher.
Justice for Darfur demands accountability from the battlefield to the boardroom. IFRD remains committed to ensuring that those most responsible are brought before the Court.
