Overview
- Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took control of el‑Fasher after an 18‑month siege, ousting the army from its last major holdout in Darfur.
- WHO said roughly 460 patients and their companions were shot and killed inside the Saudi Maternity Hospital, and six health workers were abducted.
- Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab, using Airbus imagery, corroborated executions around the hospital and identified a potential mass‑killing site at a detention facility, with evidence of systematic killings near an eastern defensive wall.
- More than 36,000 people fled largely on foot toward Tawila, yet aid groups report far fewer arrivals than expected and recount extortion, rape, and killings along escape routes under a communications blackout.
- The UN Security Council condemned reported RSF atrocities and demanded immediate humanitarian access, while RSF leader Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo acknowledged unspecified abuses, announced an internal probe, and denied responsibility for the hospital killings.