Overview
- Rapid Support Forces now control El Fasher after a prolonged siege, with communications severely disrupted and reports of continuing killings across the city.
- WHO said about 460 patients and companions were killed at the Al Saudi maternity hospital, while Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab cited late‑October satellite imagery consistent with mass killings at the hospital and a detention site.
- Witnesses described house‑to‑house executions and shootings of civilians fleeing the city, and verified videos show summary killings, which UN human rights officials warned could amount to war crimes.
- At least 36,183 people fled between October 26 and 29, mostly toward Tawila, where aid groups report extortion, sexual violence, and critical shortages in overcrowded camps.
- The UN Security Council condemned the RSF’s reported abuses and pressed for humanitarian access and accountability as RSF leaders denied the hospital massacre allegation, acknowledged some abuses, and rights groups urged targeted sanctions and scrutiny of alleged external support, including UAE‑linked arms and foreign fighters.