Overview
- Newsrooms verified RSF videos at the Sudanese army’s Sixth Division headquarters but could not confirm the timing or citywide control due to a communications blackout.
- Army-aligned Popular Resistance and local activists dispute the claim of full control, reporting continued clashes around the airfield and western sectors and saying the base had been largely vacated.
- UN aid chief Tom Fletcher calls for safe passage, unimpeded humanitarian access and an immediate ceasefire, warning residents are shelled, starving and cut off from care.
- UN agencies estimate roughly 250,000–260,000 civilians remain trapped in El‑Fasher with thousands of children at imminent risk, while IOM reports 2,500–3,000 fled on Sunday.
- The RSF also advanced in North Kordofan around Bara, and analysts say confirmed control of El‑Fasher would consolidate RSF dominance in Darfur and raise the risk of a de facto partition of Sudan.