Overview
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington is pressuring countries supplying weapons to the RSF to stop, declining to publicly name specific states.
- An adviser to RSF leader Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo warned Rubio’s comments were a “failed step” that could undermine efforts toward a humanitarian ceasefire.
- Sudan’s foreign ministry welcomed the U.S. stance and reiterated its request for the RSF to be designated a terrorist organization.
- The U.N. Human Rights Council held a special session and assigned investigators to urgently document and identify those responsible for killings and other abuses in El Fasher after the city fell to the RSF.
- U.N. agencies report a deepening crisis, with about 100,000 people fleeing El Fasher in recent weeks and renewed clashes around Babanusa in Kordofan, as WHO estimates at least 40,000 dead and 12 million displaced.