Overview
- El‑Fasher fell to the Rapid Support Forces after an approximately 18‑month siege, completing the group’s control of Darfur’s state capitals as sporadic fighting was still reported.
- The World Health Organization reported about 460 people killed at the Saudi Maternity Hospital, and UN officials described credible accounts of executions, rape and house‑to‑house violence.
- Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab, using Airbus satellite imagery, identified patterns consistent with bodies and blood at multiple sites, including near the Saudi Hospital and a former children’s hospital.
- The International Organization for Migration estimates roughly 33,000–36,000 people reached nearby towns such as Tawila, while aid groups say many who fled are unaccounted for and survivors report killings and assaults along escape routes.
- The RSF said it detained several fighters, including a figure identified as Abu Lulu, but activists and analysts voiced skepticism and UN officials called for independent investigations as violence and abuses are also reported in North Kordofan following the capture of Bara.