Published On 8/11/2025
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Last update: 20:57 (Mecca time)
Today, Saturday, Rapid Support Forces marches attacked the city of Damazin in Blue Nile State, hours after they targeted the city of El Obeid in North Kordofan, at a time when the number of displaced people fleeing the city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, is increasing.
A security source told Al Jazeera that the Sudanese army’s ground anti-aircraft guns responded to assault marches in the city of Damazin in the south of the country.
Earlier today, a Sudanese army source told Al Jazeera that air defense units shot down a long-range march in the city of El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan state.
The source indicated that the march was used to bomb populated areas in Al-Obeid, causing major losses to civilian property during the past days.
Yesterday, a Rapid Support march targeted the city of El Obeid. These forces also bombed the SPLM forces north of the city of Dilling, the most prominent city in South Kordofan, killing 6 people, according to the “Emergency Lawyers” group, a human rights group concerned with monitoring human rights violations in Sudan.
The attacks on cities in the Kordofan region come amid international warnings of escalating fighting in the region.
In the past few days, reports spoke of the Rapid Support Forces beginning to mobilize forces to attack areas in Kordofan after taking control of the city of El Fasher.
Displaced persons situation
Meanwhile, Sudanese Minister of Human Resources and Social Development Moatasem Ahmed Saleh said today that 50,000 displaced people from El Fasher have arrived in Al-Dabba locality in the northern state.
Saleh added that the Rapid Support Forces are still systematically committing crimes in the city of El Fasher, preventing hundreds of thousands of citizens from leaving the city and abusing them.
Today, the President of the Sovereignty Council and Commander of the Sudanese Army, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, inspected the displaced people in Al-Afad camp, east of the city of Al-Dabbah in the northern state, where thousands of displaced people from Al-Fasher arrived in the area.
Al-Burhan inspected the field medical clinics in the camp, listened to the needs of the displaced from the Emergency and Services Committee of the Al-Dabba locality, and pledged to provide the camp’s needs, especially medical and food.
In turn, Ahmed Babiker Adam, representative of the Kordofan states to the Voluntary and Humanitarian Action Commission, warned of the worsening humanitarian conditions for the displaced who fled to Khartoum after the Rapid Support Forces took control of their areas in Kordofan.
Adam added – in statements to Al Jazeera – that about 16,000 displaced people arrived in Khartoum State during the past days, noting that most of them are residing in the homes of their relatives, amid difficult humanitarian conditions.
He explained that the available aid covers only a limited part of the daily needs of hundreds of families displaced to Khartoum.
In this context, the governor of the Darfur region, Minni Arko Minawi, said that any truce without protecting civilians and holding perpetrators of crimes accountable means dividing Sudan.
Referring to the Rapid Support Forces, Minawi called on what he called the Janjaweed and mercenaries to withdraw from residential areas and hospitals, release the kidnapped people, including children and women, and secure the return of the displaced.
Killed and arrested
Meanwhile, the United Nations Human Rights Office in Sudan said today that the city of El Fasher has witnessed an escalation in brutal attacks over the past 10 days, and called for action to protect civilians there.
The office added – in a statement – that El Fasher is a city overwhelmed with sadness, and that civilians are experiencing atrocities on an unimaginable scale, as he put it.
The UN office confirmed that hundreds were killed in El Fasher, including women, children and wounded who took refuge in hospitals, noting that brutal attacks on an ethnic basis are often committed in the city.
The statement stated that thousands of people were arrested in El Fasher, including medical personnel and journalists, and said that there are no safe ways to leave the city, and that there are serious dangers threatening those who remain trapped in the city.
The United Nations Human Rights Office in Sudan called for safe passage, protection of civilians in El Fasher, and ensuring unhindered access of aid.
Yesterday, UN experts accused the Rapid Support Forces of committing mass atrocities and causing a catastrophic humanitarian crisis after they finally took control of the city.
Since April 2023, Sudan has witnessed a war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces, which has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands and the displacement of about 13 million people.