What Remains of the Living
Mass atrocities in Darfur

© Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi

FROM OCTOBER 5 TO 25

What Remains of the Living
Mass atrocities in Darfur

For the past three years, Sudan has been torn apart by a war that has received very little media coverage. It is a war for which it is not even possible to give a realistic estimate of the number of casualties: figures range from 60,000 to 150,000 deaths. Around 12 million people – a quarter of Sudan’s total population – have fled their homes due to the extremely intense fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. This is the largest number of internally displaced people in the world today.
Violence is spreading across the whole country, but it is the Darfur region, in western Sudan, that has been hardest hit, particularly because the war there intersects with pre-existing ethnic fault lines. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which emerged from the Janjaweed militias already responsible for mass atrocities in the early 2000s, recruit from local Arab militias and target non-Arab communities. Doctors without Borders teams have witnessed, and in some cases been victims of, the RSF’s ethnic targeting.
The exhibition documents some of the most tragic events: first, the massacres in El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, between June and November 2023; then the siege and fall of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur (2024 – October 2025).
Drawing on images and testimonies gathered by photographers, journalists and members of Doctors without Borders, What Remains of the Living sheds light on the mechanisms of ethnic cleansing, the scale of mass violence, the forms of resistance that emerged, and finally exile, sometimes the last resort for survival.

Photographers : Pep Bonet / NOOR, Julie David de Lossy, Thibault Fendler, Corentin Fohlen / Divergence, Alexis Huguet, Moises Saman / Magnum Photos, Jérôme Tubiana, Kadir Van Lohuizen / NOOR, Diana Zeyneb Alhindawi

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Open every day from 5 to 11 October, from 10.00 am to 12.30 pm and from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm
Open Wednesday to Sunday from 12 to 25 October, from 2.00 pm to 6.00 pm
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