Overview
- Nearly 70% of the population now needs assistance, with about 30 million people reliant on aid as humanitarian funding shrinks.
- Officials say 1,223 improvised grave sites have been identified across greater Khartoum and up to 15,000 bodies have been exhumed despite destroyed DNA labs and shortages of basic forensic supplies.
- Eyewitnesses describe Al Fashir as a ravaged, largely deserted city after the RSF’s late-October takeover, with reports of killings, ransom detentions and dire medical neglect.
- Open-source analysis documents RSF use of foreign-origin weapons including UAE-produced Panthera T2 vehicles and Chinese AH-4 howitzers, plus sightings of a U.S.-made M110 SASS rifle; analysts allege UAE-linked proxy supply lines, which the UAE denies.
- Authorities in the capital banned army-allied militias from carrying weapons to restore order and encourage returns, yet large outages, disease and crime still deter displaced residents.