Overview
- A Sudanese medical organization accused RSF forces of collecting hundreds of bodies in El-Fasher and burning or burying them to conceal killings, and called for an independent international investigation.
- UN human rights experts said credible accounts of summary executions, ethnic targeting, abductions and sexual violence constitute war crimes that may amount to crimes against humanity.
- ABC News verification and Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab matched ground videos with satellite imagery showing a berm encircling the city, burned homes and vehicles, and clusters consistent with bodies visible from space.
- The RSF’s capture of the city on October 26 after an 18‑month siege has driven large-scale displacement toward Tawila, with IOM estimating about 82,000 people fleeing and MSF reporting severe trauma cases and acute malnutrition as the IPC declared famine in the area.
- The RSF denied killing civilians and cited orders to protect them, while it signaled acceptance of a U.S.-backed humanitarian truce that the army conditioned on RSF pullbacks as humanitarian access remains largely blocked.