Overview
- Satellite analysis by the Associated Press and Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab shows severe damage at the army’s 6th Division headquarters in El Fasher, supporting reports that RSF captured the compound.
- The United Nations warns that control of El Fasher could give RSF dominance across Darfur and enable a parallel administration with heightened risk of ethnically targeted atrocities.
- Army-aligned forces allege more than 2,000 civilians were executed after the assault, a Yale-affiliated lab reports evidence of mass executions, and medical and rights groups detail hospital looting and over 1,000 detentions.
- UNICEF estimates about 260,000 people were trapped in the city before the attack, and the International Organization for Migration reports more than 26,000 newly displaced since Sunday.
- U.S.-sponsored ceasefire talks in Washington collapsed hours before the offensive, as Sudan’s foreign ministry accused the United Arab Emirates of backing RSF and undercutting mediation.