Overview
- The Rapid Support Forces have consolidated control of El Fasher after the Sudanese army withdrew, giving the group control of major cities across Darfur.
- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said about 460 patients and companions were killed at El Fasher’s Al-Saudi maternity hospital.
- Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab reported satellite evidence consistent with executions and mass killings near the hospital and at other sites in the city.
- Aid groups report large but incomplete displacement flows, with the IOM counting more than 36,000 people on the move in late October and agencies warning of dire conditions among limited arrivals to Tawila.
- RSF leader Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo acknowledged unspecified abuses and announced an internal probe, while RSF statements deny the hospital killings as accusations grow and the UN demands access and accountability.