Overview

• The Sudanese Armed Forces formally accepted a UN request for a seven-day truce in El-Fasher to allow humanitarian aid deliveries.
• Rapid Support Forces leaders say they have not received the ceasefire proposal and have not yet committed to observing the pause.
• Secretary-General António Guterres placed a direct call to General Abdel-Fattah Burhan to secure the humanitarian pause after warning of a worsening crisis.
• Recent RSF shelling killed at least 13 civilians, including three children, and injured 21 as besieged families survive on leaves and peanut shells.
• UN officials have proposed expanding predictable, time-bound humanitarian pauses to other besieged areas across Sudan.