Overview
- The Rapid Support Forces seized El Fasher after an approximately 18‑month siege, completing their takeover of Darfur's state capitals.
- The ICC prosecutor's office said alleged killings, rapes and abductions in and around El Fasher may constitute war crimes or crimes against humanity, and it is preserving evidence for potential prosecutions.
- Humanitarian agencies report large population movements, with the IOM counting more than 36,000 people fleeing parts of North Kordofan in recent days and separate IOM tracking cited by Reuters indicating over 70,000 left al‑Fashir since October 26.
- Health and rights groups cite grave abuses, including a WHO‑reported attack that killed at least 460 people at a hospital and the abduction of medical staff, while the RSF denies harming civilians.
- Pope Leo XIV urged a ceasefire and humanitarian corridors, and the foreign ministers of Germany, Jordan and the UK issued a joint call for an immediate halt to fighting as the ICRC warned that Darfur’s past atrocities risk repeating.