Published On 9/11/2025
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Last update: 21:03 (Mecca time)
Calls continue at the regional level for a ceasefire in Sudan, as battles continue on several fronts, while sources told Al Jazeera that waves of displacement from the city of El Fasher are still escalating after the Rapid Support Forces took control of the city late last month.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in statements to reporters, “We will continue our diplomatic efforts to ensure peace and security in Sudan, and we cannot be satisfied with following what is happening there.”
He continued, “It is not possible to work without a plan. The plan comes first, then implementation,” and added that Türkiye is evaluating the situation to determine the support it can provide.
The Turkish President believed that “what is happening is exhausting the conscience of humanity,” calling for an end to the conflict as soon as possible through dialogue. He added, “We know very well that our responsibility in this matter is heavy.”
At the same time, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said, in a statement, that Minister Badr Abdel Ati discussed, in a telephone call with the Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, the latest developments in the situation in Sudan and the progress of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
Abdel-Aty stressed “the importance of concerted regional and international efforts to support a comprehensive ceasefire and create conditions for launching a comprehensive political process that achieves the aspirations of the Sudanese people.”
He also condemned “the horrific atrocities that the city of El Fasher recently witnessed,” stressing “the necessity of launching a humanitarian path that guarantees the unhindered arrival of aid.”
On October 26, the Rapid Support Forces seized the city of El Fasher, the center of North Darfur state, and committed massacres against civilians, as documented by field testimonies and local and international organizations, amid warnings of establishing a geographical division of Sudan.
“Hiding traces of crime”
The Sudan Doctors Network said on Sunday that the Rapid Support Forces collected hundreds of bodies from the streets and neighborhoods of El Fasher, buried some in mass graves and burned others completely, in an attempt to “hide the effects of their crimes against civilians.”
The network added in a statement that the situation in El Fasher has exceeded the limits of a humanitarian catastrophe to what it called a systematic crime of genocide in light of international silence that amounts to complicity.
For his part, the governor of the Darfur region, Minni Arko Minawi, said in a post on the X website that “no one can erase the traces of the crimes committed by the Rapid Support leaders.”
The worsening humanitarian situation in #Al-Fasher..Details with the correspondent #Al Jazeera Pure and satisfactory#Aljazeera_correspondents pic.twitter.com/YkCFLk28UI
– Al Jazeera Channel (@AJArabic) November 8, 2025
Minawi added that the one who should be tried is the commander of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo “Hemedti,” and his brothers, whom he accused of issuing instructions to commit ethnic genocide against specific nationalities.
The governor of Darfur described the trial of Abu Lulu, one of the Rapid Support leaders in El Fasher, as merely a political farce that will not change the facts.
It is noteworthy that the Rapid Support Forces had arrested Al-Fateh Idris, known as Abu Lulu, and accused him of committing crimes against civilians in El-Fasher.
The suffering of displacement
Meanwhile, a government source in the northern state of Sudan reported to Al Jazeera that the number of displaced people from the Darfur and Kordofan regions in Al-Dabba locality in the northern state had risen to 57,000 displaced people.
The source indicated that more than 500 families from the city of Bara in North Kordofan State have arrived in Al-Dabbah, and explained that they are currently being transferred to the main camp in Al-Afadh, east of the city.
The source also confirmed that the Northern State authorities are currently dealing with 4 places to shelter displaced people in Al-Dabba locality, and these places include thousands of displaced people.
In the same context, medical sources reported to Al Jazeera Network of an increase in the wave of displacement from El Fasher towards the towns of Tawila, Goloa, Korma and Mellit in North Darfur.
This comes in light of great difficulty in obtaining transportation to take them from El Fasher to towns near the city.
The sources indicated that most of the displaced people are fleeing on foot.
Drone attacks
On the ground, military sources told Al Jazeera that the Sudanese army’s defenses responded to a drone attack that targeted some neighborhoods of the city of Damazin, southeast of the country, and were able to shoot it down.
In the southwest of the country, security and military sources told Al Jazeera that the Sudanese army targeted military sites belonging to the Rapid Support Forces with marches in the city of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur.
According to the sources, the aerial bombardment targeted combat vehicles and supply sites in the city, which has been under the control of the Rapid Support since October 2023.
Sudan has been witnessing a war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, which has killed tens of thousands and displaced about 13 million people.