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RSF Tightens El-Fasher Siege With 31-Kilometre Berms as Assaults Escalate

A reported drone strike on a Nyala hospital killed civilians during the RSF leader’s swearing-in for a parallel government based in Darfur.

(FILES) Sudanese residents gather to receive free meals in El-Fasher, a city besieged by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year, in Darfur region, on August 11, 2025. The RSF, at war with the regular army since April 2023, has launched its fiercest assault to date on El-Fasher, the only major city in the western Darfur region still in army hands. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
Both army troops and the RSF paramilitaries have been accused of atrocities
Sudanese residents gather to receive free meals in El-Fasher, a city besieged by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year, in thr Darfur region

Overview

  • Satellite analysis by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab shows more than 31 km of RSF-built berms encircling El-Fasher, creating what researchers call a “kill box” that restricts movement and blocks supplies.
  • The RSF’s offensive has shrunk the army-held area to less than 13 square kilometres, with strikes damaging the city’s water authority and repeated attacks reported on hospitals, markets and the Abu Shouk camp.
  • Between roughly 260,000 and 300,000 civilians, including about 130,000 children, are trapped with severe food and water shortages as cholera cases rise and child malnutrition reaches emergency levels.
  • Aid access remains critically constrained, with the UN reporting that food convoys rarely reach North Darfur and confirming a recent drone strike on a WFP convoy, the second such attack in three months.
  • Casualty reports from the latest strikes vary, with at least 12 people killed in a Nyala clinic attack and dozens more reported dead or wounded in El-Fasher shelling, as the RSF proclaims a parallel ‘Peace government’ in Nyala.