RSF takeover of Darfur’s el-Fasher makes ‘catastrophic scenario’ even worse. Now Kordofan prone to similar atrocities.
Printed On 15 Dec 2025
The European Union has launched an “air bridge” to carry eight planeloads of humanitarian assist into Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur area.
The European Fee’s division overseeing abroad assist unveiled the measure on Monday and mentioned the flights will carry 3.5 million euros ($4.1m) of “life-saving provides” to the western area, the place “mass atrocities, hunger and displacement” have left tens of millions of individuals in pressing want.
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The primary flight left on Friday, delivering about 100 tonnes of assist from “EU humanitarian stockpiles and associate organisations”, the fee’s Directorate-Common for European Civil Safety and Humanitarian Support Operations mentioned in a press release.
Additional flights will proceed all through this month and January, it mentioned, itemizing water, shelter supplies, and sanitation, hygiene and well being objects among the many provides being transported to “one of many world’s hardest locations for assist organisations to achieve”.
It famous that the autumn of North Darfur’s capital, el-Fasher, which was seized by the paramilitary Speedy Assist Forces (RSF) in late October, marked a “main escalation of an already catastrophic humanitarian scenario” and has made assist entry even tougher.
The RSF took management of el-Fasher after an 18-month siege that minimize residents off from meals, medication and different essential provides, prompting more than 100,000 folks to flee, many to the city of Tawila, which has grow to be the epicentre of the area’s spiralling humanitarian disaster.
Those that fled el-Fasher reported mass killings, kidnappings and widespread acts of sexual violence because the RSF raided the town. United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk accused the group of committing “the gravest of crimes”.
Rising fears of extra atrocities
Sudan was plunged into chaos in April 2023 when an influence wrestle between the navy and the RSF exploded into open preventing within the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere within the nation.
For the reason that RSF took management of el-Fasher, which was the navy’s final stronghold in Darfur, preventing has moved eastwards to the Kordofan area because the RSF and its allies search to take management of Sudan’s central hall.
The paramilitary has now set its sights on Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan State; Dilling, additionally in South Kordofan; and the North Kordofan State capital, el-Obeid. They lie on a north-south axis between the border with South Sudan and the nationwide capital, Khartoum.
El-Obeid additionally lies on a key freeway that connects Darfur to Khartoum, which the military recaptured in March.
The UN has repeatedly warned that the Kordofan area is at risk of witnessing a repeat of the atrocities that unfolded in el-Fasher.
With the RSF answerable for all of Darfur’s main cities, Sudan in impact is break up in two. The military holds the centre, east and north whereas the RSF and its allies management the west and components of the south.
