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- Oct 26, 202590% CONFIDENCEfrom the source
RSF Takes El Fasher, the Sudanese Army's Last Darfur Stronghold
- The Rapid Support Forces seized the main Sudanese army base in El Fasher, capital of North Darfur, and declared victory on Sunday 26 October 2025[1][2]
- Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan announced late on Monday 27 October that his forces were withdrawing from their last stronghold in Darfur[1]
- The UN human rights office said it had received reports of summary executions of civilians trying to flee and of fighters who had laid down their weapons, with indications of ethnic motivation, and that hundreds had been detained[3]
- UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the fall a 'terrible escalation' and criticised 'external interference' in the war[3]
- Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab said satellite imagery showed evidence of mass killings after the city fell[1]
- Several thousand civilians fled west to the Tawila displacement site[2]
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- [1]90%aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/28/yale-report-finds-evidence-of-rsf-mass-killings-in-sudans-el-fasheraljazeera.com· Posted Sep 27, 2026· Starts Oct 26, 2025 ✓· 44% of score
Al Jazeera (28 October 2025): Burhan 'announced the withdrawal of his forces ... late on Monday, a day after the paramilitary RSF seized control of the main Sudanese army base in el-Fasher' (Sunday 26 October 2025); Wikipedia[2] gives 26 October for the base's fall.
- [2]72%Siege of El Fasheren.wikipedia.org· Added Sep 27, 2026· 44% of score
Says the SAF 6th Infantry Division headquarters fell to the RSF on 26 October 2025 after three days of intensified fighting, ending a siege of about 30 months, and that several thousand civilians fled to Tawila.[1]
- [3]90%Risk of large-scale atrocities in Sudan's El Fasher grows 'by the day'news.un.org· Published Oct 27, 2025· 12% of score
UN News (27 October 2025): OHCHR received reports of summary executions of civilians fleeing 'the last Sudanese military government stronghold of El Fasher', with indications of ethnic motivation; Volker Türk warned the risk of atrocities was 'mounting by the day' and Guterres called it a 'terrible escalation'.[1]
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