{"id":211729,"date":"2025-10-29T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-north-darfur-capital-falls-to-rsf-as-un-warns-of-atrocities-and-mass-displacement\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T08:28:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T06:28:35","slug":"sudan-north-darfur-capital-falls-to-rsf-as-un-warns-of-atrocities-and-mass-displacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-north-darfur-capital-falls-to-rsf-as-un-warns-of-atrocities-and-mass-displacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan: North Darfur capital falls to RSF as UN warns of &#8216;atrocities and mass displacement&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">El Fasher \/ Geneva \u2014 <em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In a televised address on Monday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/sudan-and-egypt-renew-commitment-to-quartet-peace-push\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Burhan<\/a>\u00a0admitted that SAF units had withdrawn from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dabangasudan.org\/en\/all-news\/article\/rsf-claims-control-of-north-darfurs-el-fasher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Fasher<\/a>\u00a0\u201cto a safe location\u201d after the RSF overran the Sixth Infantry Division\u2019s base, one of the army\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510280689.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Fasher \/ Geneva \u2014 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,\u00a0El Burhan\u00a0admitted that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":211730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671808:9d6a662eb3cfe65fee22fdabd4c34392:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,5815,6959,2269,6318,7668,7883,257,6732,2830,254,4708,1613,6853],"class_list":["post-211729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atrocities","tag-capital","tag-darfur","tag-displacement","tag-falls","tag-mass","tag-news","tag-north","tag-rsf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-warns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671808:9d6a662eb3cfe65fee22fdabd4c34392:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}