Overview

• Local responders said a drone struck a mosque near the Abu Shouk camp outside El Fasher during Friday prayers, with reported deaths ranging from 43 to 75 and the army citing at least 70.
• Medical and activist groups attributed the strike to the Rapid Support Forces, which are pressing offensives around the city; the RSF had not issued a comment in the initial reports.
• A new UN Human Rights Office report records 3,384 civilian deaths in January–June 2025 and at least 990 summary executions, noting that ethnic identity is increasingly a motive for attacks.
• The report highlights expanded use of drones and indiscriminate shelling against civilian sites, including during operations in and around displacement camps such as ZamZam and Abu Shouk.
• Satellite analysis from Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab indicates RSF advances and fortifications around El Fasher, while communications blackouts and access constraints complicate casualty verification.