Overview
- After taking El Fasher on Oct. 26, the RSF now controls Darfur, with WHO confirming more than 450 people killed in an attack on the city’s last functioning hospital and WFP declaring famine conditions in parts of the city.
- Witnesses, rights groups and Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab report mass killings, sexual violence and newly dug mass graves in El Fasher, while communications blackouts and access restrictions hamper verification.
- OCHA says at least 40 civilians were killed at a funeral in El-Obeid in North Kordofan, where the security situation is worsening as RSF forces appear poised for a wider offensive and fighting spreads from Darfur.
- The ICC says it is collecting evidence of alleged mass killings, rape and other crimes in El Fasher, and the UN secretary-general warns the conflict is spiralling out of control and urges an immediate halt to violence.
- Sudan’s army-aligned Security and Defence Council met to consider a US-backed truce proposal brokered with Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, while accusations that the UAE armed the RSF are repeated and denied; a media report citing a 7,000-death estimate remains unverified and disputed by the RSF.