Alleging that UAE-supplied drones taking off from an Ethiopian airport have attacked Sudan four times since March 1, the Sudanese government has recalled its ambassador, and threatened an “open confrontation” with Ethiopia “if it becomes necessary.”​

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.

“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.

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.

Last week, RSF leader Hemedti was sworn in as head of a parallel government in Sudan, a move seen as part of the paramilitary group’s efforts to entrench its power despite being accused of widespread atrocities and fueling the ongoing conflict.

At least 1,335 Internally Displaced Persons are estimated to have been killed in an attack on a camp near El Geneina. With this attack, all the people displaced during the civil war in Darfur in the 2000s, who are witnesses to the crimes committed then, been driven out of the capital of the West Darfur State by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces