Overview
- Rapid Support Forces captured El-Fasher on October 26 after an 18‑month siege, taking the last major army-held city in Darfur.
- Survivor accounts and NGO reports detail executions, sexual violence, pillage, attacks on aid workers, and detentions for ransom with people separated by sex, age, or perceived ethnicity.
- The WHO has verified at least 460 people killed in an attack on a maternity facility in El-Fasher.
- Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab reports no large-scale population movement and satellite patterns consistent with large-scale body removal, raising the likelihood many civilians were killed, captured, or in hiding.
- The ICC prosecutor cautions the acts may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity as France condemns ethnically motivated atrocities and calls for a ceasefire, while UN and IOM report at least 36,825 newly displaced in North Kordofan and tens of thousands still trapped in El-Fasher.