Overview
- The UN human rights office says it has credible evidence of mass killings in Al-Fashir and reports of rape, sexual violence and gang rapes following the RSF takeover.
- Volker Türk calls the city’s preceding 18‑month siege an atrocity and warns of signs suggesting similar violence could occur in Kordofan.
- The International Criminal Court characterizes the reported crimes as suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- The UN describes Sudan as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, with tens of thousands killed and about 12 million people displaced since 2023.
- The conflict pits the army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan against RSF forces tied to Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, whose fighters seized Al-Fashir in late October.