460 Dead in Sudan Massacre: CBS Skips It, ABC Gives It a Few Sentences
3rd November 2025
Last weekend 460 patients and their associates were massacred at Saudi Maternity Hospital in el-Fasher, Sudan. This was acknowledged by the World Health Organization last Wednesday, when they reported that the RSF, the Rapid Support Forces, a Sudanese paramilitary force, in other words, terrorists, had committed the heinous act, as well as other slaughters in and around Darfur. One would think that this kind of horror would be widely reported on. When it comes to the nightly newscasts on CBS and ABC, one would be wrong.
Let’s start with the CBS Evening News. They did not mention the attack even once all week — that’s zero seconds — but they did have time for plenty of Halloween stories. On Friday evening, which was Halloween, the broadcast spent one minute on Halloween weather around the country. They ran a two minute package on “spooky” Halloween decorations, and the debate over whether or not they are too scary for children. And the best for last, a three minute segment on toilet paper being used by mischievous trick or treaters using toilet paper to ‘decorate’ homes and businesses in Heflin, Alabama, something the police are understandably not happy about. Bari Weiss, are you watching?
Over on Friday’s ABC’s “World News Tonight”, they could muster only 19 seconds of coverage of the hospital slaughter and the ongoing killings in Sudan, as anchor David Muir told his audience, “Overseas tonight a horrific scene unfolding in Sudan. Allegations of genocide in Darfur. Mass killings reported over a 72 hour period. Rebels storming a hospital this week, massacring hundreds of patients, visitors and medical staff. Reports of gunmen going door to door. Rebels claim they captured the final holdout of the Sudanese army in Darfur.” Then it was on to him promoting a Halloween story, coming up next!
The Sudan Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is a powerful paramilitary group that originated from the Janjaweed militias active during the Darfur conflict. Formed officially in 2013 under the government of Omar al-Bashir and commanded by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (known as Hemedti), the RSF gained significant power over the years. It has been accused of severe human rights abuses including war crimes, ethnic killings, sexual violence, and forced displacements, particularly against non-Arab ethnic groups in Darfur. The RSF fought alongside and against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the ongoing civil war that began in April 2023.