Overview
- RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo announced an immediate three‑month humanitarian pause, describing it as a unilateral step in response to international efforts led by President Donald Trump and the Quad.
- Army chief Gen. Abdel‑Fattah Burhan dismissed the proposal as “the worst yet,” alleging biased mediation, singling out U.S. envoy Massad Boulos, and criticizing the UAE’s role while insisting RSF must withdraw from seized areas.
- Massad Boulos said both the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF had welcomed the plan in principle but neither formally accepted it, and he rejected Burhan’s characterization of the text.
- Fresh violence underscored the fragility of any pause, with the army reporting it repelled an RSF attack on a base in Babanusa in West Kordofan as questions persisted over truce compliance.
- Amnesty International accused the RSF of war crimes in El Fasher, where satellite imagery and witness accounts describe mass killings and other abuses, as the conflict’s toll climbs into the tens of thousands dead and millions displaced.