Overview
- One week after the October 26 takeover, UN agencies say more than 65,000 people fled El-Fasher, including about 5,000 to Tawila, with tens of thousands still trapped and aid access severely constrained.
- Survivors describe hundreds of young men arrested and held in improvised sites such as schools, where detainees were beaten, humiliated, and given minimal food.
- An academic sent a video pleading for a $900 transfer as the “price” of his life before release, illustrating reported kidnappings for ransom alongside looting, sexual violence, and alleged summary executions.
- Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab reports no large-scale population movement from the city, raising the likelihood many civilians are dead, captured, or in hiding, and notes satellite signatures consistent with the removal of bodies.
- Witnesses recount indiscriminate fire as RSF entered the city and people were hunted as they fled, with local resistance groups reporting large numbers missing and claiming widespread sexual violence that remains difficult to independently verify.