Overview
- The RSF captured El-Fasher on October 26 after an 18‑month siege, with UN figures indicating about 60,000–65,000 people have fled and well over 150,000 remain trapped or unaccounted for.
- Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab reports no mass population movement after the takeover and satellite signatures compatible with large-scale removal of bodies.
- Witnesses describe executions, mass detentions in improvised sites such as schools, beatings, ransom kidnappings, and sexual violence against civilians attempting to flee.
- Aid groups report a communications blackout and severely constrained access, with only small numbers reaching Tawila despite widespread attempts to escape.
- Fighting has expanded into North Kordofan, where the IOM counts 36,825 newly displaced, as UN officials warn of vast atrocities and ethnically targeted reprisals.