Overview
- Rapid Support Forces now control El Fasher after an extended siege, cutting off the city and consolidating their hold across much of Darfur.
- Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab identified multiple clusters consistent with human bodies and surrounding discoloration consistent with blood across the city within roughly 72 hours of the takeover, including at a former hospital used as a detention site and along the encircling earthwork.
- AFP-verified videos show a fighter known as Abu Lulu executing unarmed men at close range, with other footage depicting bodies and RSF technicals nearby.
- RSF announced arrests of several fighters and released a video purporting to show Abu Lulu handcuffed in custody, a move observers view skeptically as possible scapegoating rather than accountability.
- UN humanitarian coordinator Tom Fletcher reported credible allegations of widespread executions, rape and mass killings, as survivors describe attacks during flight and hundreds of thousands remain trapped; the U.S. earlier concluded RSF members committed genocide in Darfur.