Sudan: North Darfur capital falls to RSF as UN warns of ‘atrocities and mass displacement’

El Fasher / Geneva — Head of the Sovereignty Council and Commander-in-Chief of the SAF, Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan confirmed the fall of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), amid reports of mass killings, displacement, and widespread abuses.

In a televised address on Monday, El Burhan admitted that SAF units had withdrawn from El Fasher “to a safe location” after the RSF overran the Sixth Infantry Division’s base, one of the army’s…