May 30, 2026 · 25 min · 14 segments
In this episode of On Assignment, set against the backdrop of Sudan’s civil war, Reuters journalists Nafisa Eltahir, Suzanne Vanhooymissen and Reade Levinson investigate what happened during the…
Reade LevinsonGuest
Kim VinnellHost
Nafisa EltahirGuest
Suzanne VanhooymissenGuest
This episode contains descriptions of extreme violence, most of which will be blurred out in the video, but discretion is advised.
[drums thumping] [cheering] Before Al Fashir became a headline, it was a city home to a million people.
Since then, the country has been torn apart by violence, and it's now facing the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.
Then, last year, over the course of three days, it became the site of what the United Nations says may be a genocide.
[footsteps crunching] In October, after an 18-month siege of the city, the RSF launched their final assault on Al Fashir.
They fought against the Sudanese Army and local armed groups, and thousands of people were killed.
A team of Reuters journalists then set out to do something extraordinary: use the evidence to put together a complete visual reconstruction of those days and speak with survivors firsthand to find out what happened.
On this episode of On Assignment, we sit down with the team behind the documentary.
The reporters and the documentary editor share their journeys, both on the ground reporting the war in Sudan, and using a virtual network to investigate and verify video evidence so that the world can really see with their own eyes the extent of human atrocities that have, until now, been mostly invisible.
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This episode contains descriptions of extreme violence, most of which will be blurred out in the video, but discretion is advised.
[drums thumping] [cheering] Before Al Fashir became a headline, it was a city home to a million people.
Since then, the country has been torn apart by violence, and it's now facing the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.
Then, last year, over the course of three days, it became the site of what the United Nations says may be a genocide.
[footsteps crunching] In October, after an 18-month siege of the city, the RSF launched their final assault on Al Fashir.
They fought against the Sudanese Army and local armed groups, and thousands of people were killed.
A team of Reuters journalists then set out to do something extraordinary: use the evidence to put together a complete visual reconstruction of those days and speak with survivors firsthand to find out what happened.
On this episode of On Assignment, we sit down with the team behind the documentary.
The reporters and the documentary editor share their journeys, both on the ground reporting the war in Sudan, and using a virtual network to investigate and verify video evidence so that the world can really see with their own eyes the extent of human atrocities that have, until now, been mostly invisible.
