Overview
- Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces assert control of El‑Fasher after an extended siege, completing their hold over Darfur’s state capitals.
- BBC‑verified footage shows RSF fighters shooting unarmed captives, including a clip geolocated to a university and another featuring a fighter known as Abu Lulu.
- The United Nations’ Sudan coordinator reported credible accounts of executions of unarmed men following the RSF’s entry into the city.
- Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab identified body‑sized clusters on satellite imagery consistent with mass casualty sites in previously undisturbed areas.
- The RSF denies large‑scale killings and says it detained some fighters accused of abuses, while casualty estimates vary with the government citing more than 2,000 dead and MSF reporting about 500 people captured or killed while fleeing.