Overview

• The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced control over the Zamzam displacement camp in North Darfur after a four-day assault involving ground and aerial attacks.
• Humanitarian groups report hundreds of civilian casualties, including children and aid workers, as shelters, markets, and healthcare facilities were destroyed.
• Tens of thousands of displaced civilians fled on foot to al-Fashir, overwhelming shelters and facing dire shortages of food, water, and medicine.
• The RSF claims it targeted the camp to dislodge Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), which it accused of using the area as a military base and civilians as human shields.
• The conflict, part of a broader power struggle between the RSF and SAF since 2023, has created what the United Nations describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with over 12 million displaced and 25 million facing extreme hunger.