Overview
- Fighting escalated across Kordofan as the RSF tightened a long-running siege of Babanusa, pressed around Al Obeid and Kadugli, and used drones that analysts say have blunted army defenses.
- UN aid chief Tom Fletcher said the UN is seeking to enter El Fasher within days or weeks to treat it as a crime scene, calling for safe passage for convoys and civilians as many residents remain unaccounted for.
- WHO reported more than 450 people killed at El Fasher’s Saudi Maternity Hospital, while Yale researchers identified mass graves and rights groups documented summary executions and widespread sexual violence.
- UN officials estimate about 12 million people displaced and at least tens of thousands killed, with Tawila hosting roughly 655,000 people facing acute malnutrition and severe shelter shortages as the UN seeks $500 million this quarter.
- The ICC is preserving evidence on alleged mass killings and rapes, and analysts say indirect talks continue on a US-, Egypt-, UAE- and Saudi-backed humanitarian truce that the RSF has accepted as the army sets conditions including lifting the Babanusa siege.