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10-11-2025
UNITED NATIONS/ KHARTOUM: The United Nations has warned of “intensified hostilities” ahead in Sudan, despite paramilitary forces endorsing a truce proposal from mediators after more than two years of war with the regular army.
“There is no sign of de-escalation,” UN human rights Chief Volker Turk said in a statement.
“Developments on the ground indicate clear preparations for intensified hostilities, with everything that implies for its long-suffering people.”
On Thursday, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said they had accepted a truce plan put forward by the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt.
However, the government, backed by the army, has yet to respond to the US-led mediators’ proposal, and explosions rocked the army-controlled capital Khartoum on Friday. The conflict, which erupted in April 2023, has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced nearly 12 million and triggered a hunger crisis.
Less than two weeks ago, the RSF captured the city of El-Fasher, the army’s last major stronghold in Darfur, giving it control of all five state capitals in the vast western region, in addition to parts of the south.
El-Fasher’s fall was accompanied by reports of mass killings, sexual violence and looting, drawing international condemnation.
Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab said on Thursday that satellite imagery collected earlier this week showed the RSF had blocked a key civilian escape route from the city.
Doctors Without Borders has warned that the fate of hundreds of thousands who are still trapped in El-Fasher was unknown after satellite images from Yale’s HRL showed suspected mass graves.
According to the United Nations, about 70,000 people have fled El-Fasher to nearby towns, including Tawila, while the city had previously housed some 260,000.
“Our main concern is that though we have seen approximately 5,000 people coming out of El-Fasher towards Tawila, we don’t know where the other hundreds of thousands have gone,” newly elected MSF President Javid Abdelmoneim said.
There are also fears of further atrocities taking place as the conflict shifts into the oil-rich Kordofan region.
In South Kordofan, a medical source said that the RSF shelled a hospital in besieged Dilling the day before, killing five and injuring five more.
The Sudan Doctors’ Union said the attack also destroyed the facility’s radiology department.
Dilling, under RSF siege since June 2023, lies about 150 kilometers southwest of army-controlled El-Obeid, a key crossroads linking Darfur to Khartoum.
The army broke a two-year siege of El-Obeid in February, but the RSF has regrouped and is mounting a fresh push to seize Sudan’s central corridor.
A resident of the city, the capital of North Kordofan state, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that people “are living in fear” and “ready to leave at any moment”.
Much of the wider Kordofan region, meanwhile, faces a worsening humanitarian crisis.
The Rome-based Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said Dilling is now at risk of famine, while South Kordofan’s capital, Kadugli, is already facing one.
Yesterday, explosions were heard in Khartoum and in Atbara, an army-held city around 300km to the north, witnesses said.
Khartoum has experienced relative calm since the army regained control earlier this year, but the RSF have continued launching long-range drone attacks on military positions and infrastructure. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
