Overview
- The RSF captured Al-Fashir after an 18‑month siege and the army confirmed its withdrawal, with the militia now controlling all five major cities in Darfur and the country effectively split, according to reporting.
- Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab identified 31 clusters resembling bodies and red stains over several days, indicating ongoing killings in residential areas, a university campus and military sites.
- Médecins Sans Frontières condemned horrific atrocities that appear both arbitrary and ethnically motivated and raised alarm that far fewer people than expected reached Tawila for assistance.
- Eyewitnesses who fled described “scenes of genocide,” and Sudan’s army accused the RSF of executing more than 2,000 unarmed civilians.
- Prime Minister Kamil Idris called for UN investigations and for the RSF to be designated a terrorist organization while rejecting a UN troop deployment, as Germany condemned the situation and the UK pledged £5 million in aid.