Overview
- RSF now controls the North Darfur capital after an 18‑month siege, with the Sudanese army confirming a withdrawal.
- Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab identified satellite evidence consistent with mass killings at Al Saudi hospital and a detention site in eastern El Fasher.
- The UN and rights groups report executions, ethnically targeted attacks, sexual violence and forced displacement, and urge independent investigations with potential ICC involvement.
- IOM recorded at least 36,183 people fleeing toward Tawila between October 26 and 29, as aid agencies warn of severe shortages and constrained access.
- RSF leadership acknowledged unspecified abuses and announced an internal probe, while disputing specific allegations including the reported hospital massacre.