Overview
- Rapid Support Forces captured el‑Fasher after an approximately 18‑month siege, consolidating control across Darfur as limited gunfire was still reported in parts of the city.
- WHO said about 460 patients and companions were killed at the Saudi Maternity Hospital, with videos circulated by local officials showing bodies inside the facility.
- Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab reported satellite imagery consistent with mass killings around the hospital, a detention site at the former Children’s Hospital, and ongoing systematic killings near an eastern barrier.
- More than 33,000 to 36,000 people have fled mostly on foot toward Tawila, where aid groups report rape, extortion and killings along escape routes and warn that few arrivals suggest many are missing; the UN approved a $20 million emergency allocation.
- The UN Security Council condemned reported executions and arbitrary detentions and urged immediate access and protection of civilians, while RSF leader Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo acknowledged “abuses” and announced an internal investigation as communications to the city remain disrupted.