Overview
- Emergency reports widespread executions, looting and acute shortages in Al Fashir, with an estimated 260,000 people trapped without water, food or medical care.
- At least 36,000 people fled Al Fashir and neighboring Kordofan in the past week, the UN’s International Organization for Migration says, with most heading to Tawila, which already shelters over 652,000 displaced people.
- The Rapid Support Forces seized Al Fashir on October 27 after a siege of roughly 500 days, tightening their grip on North Darfur in the civil war against Sudan’s regular army.
- RSF fighters uploaded videos showing arbitrary executions, satellite imagery indicates large pools of blood in the city, and pro‑army Joint Forces allege about 2,000 civilians were killed, a figure that remains unverified.
- Signs of a widening conflict include a drone strike on Khartoum’s airport, which had been nearing reopening, a reported capture of Barra, and Emergency’s warning that 30 million people now need humanitarian aid.