Overview
- UN coordinator Denise Brown said el-Fasher was largely deserted during a short visit, with survivors sheltering in empty buildings or under plastic sheets and hospitals lacking supplies.
- More than 100,000 people fled the city after the RSF seized it on October 26 following an 18‑month siege, and agencies report famine conditions with UNICEF warning of extreme child malnutrition in North Darfur.
- Satellite analysis by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab indicates efforts to remove or conceal human remains, as rights groups and medics report ethnically targeted killings and recent attacks that left more than 200 dead near the Chad border.
- Fresh fighting from December 24–26 displaced over 10,000 people in Um Baru, Kernoi and Kadugli, while sieges in South Kordofan and battles around el-Obeid have turned towns into ghostly shells.
- The UN has halved its 2026 appeal and WFP warns rations could be cut by up to 70 percent, as General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan rejects mediation in favor of RSF surrender and international calls grow for a ceasefire.