In imagery collected on Monday over El Fasher, a city in the the Darfur region of Sudan, the presence of two clusters of light and dark-coloured objects consistent with the size of human bodies, reddish ground discolouration and vehicles are visible.

Massacres of civilians in Darfur this week have become so extensive that the pools of blood in the streets can be detected from space, an analysis of satellite images has found.

By Tuesday morning, more than 2,000 unarmed civilians – mostly women and children – had been killed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after its capture of the besieged city of El Fasher, according to a coalition of Darfur militia forces affiliated with the Sudanese army.

The analysis of satellite images, by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab,

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