Overview
- Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan acknowledged withdrawing forces after the RSF took the Sixth Division headquarters, cementing RSF control over all Darfur state capitals.
- The UN human rights office reports multiple accounts of summary executions and ethnically motivated killings, with videos showing unarmed men shot and hundreds reportedly detained, including a journalist.
- Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab and AP-reviewed satellite imagery indicate patterns consistent with mass killings and door-to-door clearance operations in El-Fasher’s Daraja Oula neighborhood.
- Humanitarian agencies report more than 26,000 people fleeing toward Tawila in two days while about 260,000 civilians remain trapped without adequate food or care, and MSF notes a sharp influx of wounded.
- WHO confirmed an attack on the last partially functioning hospital that killed a nurse, as the AU, UN and IOM press for immediate humanitarian access and a ceasefire; casualty claims exceeding 2,000 from army allies remain unverified.