Nathaniel Raymond

Executive Director @HRL_YaleSPH and Lecturer @YaleSPH @YaleEMD. Researches mass atrocity response ops, data governance, humanitarian aid.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

“I’m not a regular lecturer; I’m a cool lecturer,” you tell yourself, as you reference another tv show cancelled before your students were born.

[Amnesty Eastern Africa @AmnestyEARO]

On 26 October 2025, the RSF waged its final offensive on El Fasher. When civilians attempted to flee, they encountered a 57km network of berms. A massacre followed: hundreds were executed, and many others were tortured or detained.

[ADF Magazine @ADFmagazine]

#SAF fortifies El Obeid as #RSF paramilitary militia masses for assault, Yale report says - https://t.co/kUEltQxntD via @SudanTribune_EN

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

The Rapid Support Forces paramilitary, armed and supplied with mercenaries by the United Arab Emirates, "committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during its campaign to capture El Fasher” in Sudan, Amnesty International reports. https://t.co/3hXloYg3p7

[Al Jazeera English Podcasts @AJEPodcasts]

In Sudan, the Rapid Support Forces are trying to seize the strategic southern city of el-Obeid from the Sudanese military.

Rights groups are warning of a potential humanitarian catastrophe.

🎧 #InsideStory spoke with @KholoodKhair and @nattyray11: https://t.co/nrLLiztdEq

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

From Raymond ⬇️

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🚨🇬🇧 SUDAN | The UK Parliament’s International Development Committee has published a September 2025 memo in which Yale war crimes investigator Nathaniel Raymond warned the British government that El Fasher’s fall was imminent, one month before the RSF stormed the city and killed at least 60,000 people.

💢 The memo, sent to the Foreign Office via the UK’s UN delegation, told officials that “if you think that there is other political maneuver space before midnight that time is up and those options no longer exist.”

💢 It urged an immediate public rebuke of the UAE over its support for the RSF, contingency planning for a mass killing scenario inside El Fasher, and protection plans for civilians fleeing on foot, noting the RSF was targeting congregations of people with drones.

💢 The UK government took none of these steps. Raymond testified last week that the Foreign Office prioritized its relations with the UAE over preventing the slaughter, as up to 500,000 civilians now face similar atrocities in El Obeid.

(Memo from @nattyray11 with @HRL_YaleSPH)

[Nathaniel Raymond @nattyray11]

People who care about civilians in Sudan should read the memo we wrote to UKUN to send to @FCDOGovUK one month before the fall of El Fasher to RSF last year. This document has never been more relevant and now it is public. #keepeyesonsudan

[International Development Committee @CommonsIDC]

We have published a memo drafted by war crimes investigator @nattyray11 for the UK’s UN delegation in 2025, advising the FCDO on preparing for the fall of El Fasher 🧵
https://t.co/v7IVt9uS2O

[IFRC @ifrc]

We are deeply saddened by the killing of two volunteers of the Red Cross of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Byamungu Mugisho Kabuha and Mugisho Mparanya Romain, on 16 June in South Kivu.

The IFRC extends its deepest condolences to the families of the deceased volunteers, the Red Cross of the DRC @croix_rouge_rdc, and the entire Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

We stand in solidarity with the Red Cross of the DRC and reaffirms its commitment to continue supporting humanitarian efforts to assist communities in eastern DRC.

[Sarah Champion @SarahChampionMP]

Sudan's RSF committed crimes against humanity in el-Fasher, @Amnesty says. This reflects the evidence @CommonsIDC received https://t.co/8xdb6c2lZz

[Mariam Lambert : CEO Emile Foundation @Mariam__Lambert]

“We must emphasize that these attacks by Russia are not just military ones. These are war crimes targeting civilians and children. They are simply erasing everything they can in Ukraine.”

This isn’t a war fought only on front lines. Russia is kidnapping children, targeting apartment blocks, maternity wards, and schools. All of them civilians.

The word “erasing” matters. It’s not incidental. It’s the point.

Impunity for today’s war crimes is the invitation for the next ones.
@emile_fondation

[International Development Committee @CommonsIDC]

We have published a memo drafted by war crimes investigator @nattyray11 for the UK’s UN delegation in 2025, advising the FCDO on preparing for the fall of El Fasher 🧵
https://t.co/v7IVt9uS2O

[International Development Committee @CommonsIDC]

Last week, war crimes investigator @nattyray11 told us the UK government chose preserving relations with UAE over calling out atrocities in Sudan.

This comes as today up to 500,000 civilians are believed to be at risk of large-scale atrocities in Sudan's al-Obeid.

[Yasmine Ahmed @YasmineAhmed001]

🚨 @amnesty Live press conference: Amnesty new report on RSF atrocities in El Fasher ‘a stain on the conscience of humanity’

The int'l community must act immediately 2 protect civilians incl in El Obeid & impose consequences on UAE et al fuelling the conflict @AgnesCallamard

[Yasmine Ahmed @YasmineAhmed001]

🚨 New @amnesty ground breaking report on Sudan: RSF atrocities in El Fasher ‘a stain on the conscience of humanity’. RSF committed multiple crimes against humanity.

Int'l community MUST act now to prevent further atrocities incl in El Obeid

https://t.co/IdoUurHyeQ

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

The UN Human Rights Council plans an emergency session on the crisis in the capital of Sudan's North Kordofan, El Obeid, amid fears that an assault by the United Arab Emirates-armed genocidal Rapid Support Forces will lead to "large-scale atrocities." https://t.co/I3X4rskjJD

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

The U.N. Human Rights Council has received a request for an urgent debate on the situation in Sudan's al-Obeid, a spokesperson said on Tuesday. https://t.co/WQxiHDUweO

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

🔴 The @UN Human Rights Council is holding an urgent debate to “address the human rights situation in and around El Obeid, North Kordofan, in the context of the ongoing conflict in the #Sudan.”

📅Friday, 3 July 2026
⏰10:00 am (GMT+2)
🏦@UNGeneva

INFO ➡️ https://t.co/DVZ7hN3Igx

[Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief]

We cannot allow El Obeid to become another El Fasher.

[Sudan Tribune @SudanTribune_EN]

Sudan's army has built a 51 km network of trenches and berms to defend the strategic city of El Obeid from an ongoing RSF encirclement, according to satellite analysis from Yale HRL.
Meanwhile, targeted drone strikes on fuel and electrical infrastructure have cut off power to vital water pumps, triggering a severe humanitarian crisis. The cost of drinking water has spiked from 9,000 to 25,000 Sudanese pounds per barrel, as over 700 new displacement structures appear in a single month.
https://t.co/0qP6l2qPBJ