As the war grinds on well past 1,000 days, famine grips more and more areas in what is already the country with high levels of hunger.

After consolidating control over Darfur, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are pushing east into Kordofan, stepping up attacks on El Obeid – a strategic city blocking their return route to the capital, Khartoum.

Pursuing armed groups affiliated to the army into Chad, Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning.”

The paramilitary RSF continues its eastward advance after consolidating control over Darfur, closing in South Kordofan’s state’s capital Kadugli and its second largest city Dilling, whose supplies it has cut off with a siege, starving its population of food and medicines.

The war in Sudan is not simply “between two generals, but between two wings of a comprador parasitic capitalist class,” fighting each other against the backdrop of a regional and global contest over Sudan’s land, resources, and geostrategic location on the Red Sea, argues Sidgi Kaballo of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP).

Analyzing satellite images showing “clusters of objects consistent with human remains”, “reddish discoloration consistent with blood”, charred earth and dug up ground consistent with the burning and burial of corpses, Yale HRL assesses that RSF has killed and disposed of people “likely in the tens of thousands”.

On December 7, 2025, Pan-African Today and the International Peoples’ Assembly organized a seminar with leading voices in Sudanese politics and human rights calling for urgent action in solidarity with Sudan.

Deploying more troops freed up from Darfur after the fall of El Fasher, the paramilitary RSF had since intensified attacks on Babanusa, stronghold of the army whose HQ of the 22nd Infantry Division was overrun on December 1.

Popular organizations and movements across Africa and beyond have condemned the ongoing massacre of the Sudanese people by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), calling for an immediate end to the violence. Urging support for the Sudanese people’s struggle for peace, justice, and democratic self-determination.

“I urge colleagues to study the latest satellite imagery of El Fasher; blood on the sand. And I urge colleagues to study the world’s continued failure to stop this. Blood on… [our] hands,” said UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Tom Fletcher.

With the last resistance fighter defending the city falling in battle, the besieged capital of North Darfur is under the control of paramilitary RSF, which has killed “most of the civilians who had remained inside”

After running out of animal fodder, people are now consuming cow skin as a last resort against starvation in North Darfur state’s besieged capital, cut off from all food supply by a 57-km wall the paramilitary has built around the city.