Sudan’s army captures two areas in North Kordofan as RSF burns more bodies

RSF is burning and burying bodies adjacent a university, mosque, campy for the displaced people, and infirmary successful el-Fasher, Yale University researchers say.

The government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) person recaptured 2 territories successful the North Kordofan authorities from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), arsenic the paramilitary radical continues burning and burying bodies successful Darfur’s el-Fasher to hide grounds of wide killings.

Footage circulating online this week showed service soldiers holding battle rifles and rocket-propelled grenades celebrating their takeovers of Kazqil and Um Dam Haj Ahmed successful North Kordofan, the authorities wherever aggravated warring is expected to rage implicit the coming weeks.

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Kazqil, which had fallen to the RSF successful precocious October, is located southbound of el-Obeid, the strategic superior metropolis of the state successful cardinal Sudan, which the paramilitary radical is trying to seizure from the army.

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— Sudan News 🇸🇩 (@Sudan_tweet) November 15, 2025

The warring betwixt the 2 rival generals starring the service and the paramilitary group, which started successful April 2023, has progressively turned eastbound implicit the past weeks arsenic the RSF solidifies power implicit the occidental parts of the war-torn country, present successful its 3rd twelvemonth of a brutal civilian war.

The fighting, fuelled by arms supplies from the region, has created what the United Nations has called the largest displacement situation successful the world. More than 12 cardinal radical person been forced from their homes, and tens of thousands person been killed and injured. The UN has besides confirmed starvation successful parts of the country.

The RSF said past week it accepted a ceasefire connection enactment guardant by the United States and different mediators, with the announcement coming aft an planetary outcry implicit atrocities committed by the paramilitary radical successful el-Fasher, the superior of North Darfur authorities successful occidental Sudan.

But the service has refused to hold to a ceasefire nether the existent conflict lines, and some sides person continued to amass troops and instrumentality successful the cardinal parts of the state to prosecute successful much battles.

The RSF launched an violative against the Kordofan portion astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic it took el-Fasher precocious past month, seizing the municipality of Bara successful North Kordofan authorities arsenic a important nexus betwixt Darfur and cardinal Sudan. The service had recaptured the municipality conscionable 2 months earlier.

Satellite images uncover wide graves

More than 2 and a fractional weeks aft afloat capturing el-Fasher from the army, the RSF has continued to dispose of bodies successful ample numbers.

An investigation of outer imagery released by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) connected Friday exposed 4 caller locations wherever paramilitary fighters are disposing of bodies successful and astir el-Fasher.

Activities accordant with assemblage disposal are disposable astatine the University of Alfashir, a operation connected the borderline of Abu Shouk campy for internally displaced people, a neighbourhood adjacent al-Hikma Mosque, and astatine Saudi Hospital, wherever RSF forces massacred hundreds.

The HRL could not reason however galore radical the RSF had killed oregon however quickly, but it said the observations are alarming, fixed the information that the whereabouts of galore civilian residents stay unknown.

🚨ATROCITY ALERT🚨@HRL_YaleSPH has identified 4 caller locations wherever the RSF is disposing of bodies successful and astir El Fasher. #KeepEyesonSudan

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— Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) astatine YSPH (@HRL_YaleSPH) November 14, 2025

Nathaniel Raymond, the pb researcher of that report, said an estimated 150,000 civilians are unaccounted for, and regular monitoring of metropolis streets shows nary enactment successful markets oregon h2o points, but lone RSF patrols and galore bodies.

“We tin spot them charred. So the question is, wherever are the radical and wherever are the bodies coming from?” helium told Al Jazeera.

Raymond said the grounds besides includes galore videos released by the RSF fighters themselves, who are “the astir prodigious producers of grounds astir their ain crimes”.