Overview
- UN staff entered el-Fasher for the first time since the RSF takeover and found a largely deserted city with scant supplies, a shattered hospital short of materials, and grave concerns about detainees and the injured.
- UNICEF reported unprecedented malnutrition in North Darfur’s Um Baru, with 53% of screened children acutely malnourished and 18% in life-threatening severe acute malnutrition, many recently displaced from el-Fasher.
- UNHCR said nearly 19,400 people have fled into eastern Chad since late October, while IOM recorded more than 10,000 newly displaced within Sudan last week from attacks in Um Baru, Kernoi and the besieged city of Kadugli.
- Evidence of mass atrocities in and around el-Fasher persists, with satellite analysis indicating removal of human remains and survivors reporting ethnically targeted killings and detentions during and after the RSF’s seizure.
- SAF chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan rejected mediated solutions and demanded RSF surrender, drawing a U.S. rebuke, as donor pullbacks forced the UN to halve its 2026 appeal and WFP warned rations could be cut by up to 70%.