The strike on the mosque got here from the north, each sources mentioned on situation of anonymity, the place the RSF has overrun the Abu Shouk displacement camp and arrange positions in an try to wrest management of town from the Sudanese Army.
“After the shelling within the afternoon, we pulled 13 our bodies from underneath the rubble and buried them,” one man who lives within the space mentioned of the assault which occurred Wednesday (October 8, 2025).
A survivor of the strike mentioned, “We have been 70 households contained in the mosque’s partitions after the Rapid Support Forces entered our properties. Yesterday, artillery shells fell, killing 13 of us, wounding 20, and destroying a part of the mosque.”
The RSF’s present assault on El-Fasher is its fiercest for the reason that conflict started with the Army in April 2023.
The North Darfur state capital, besieged by the RSF since May of final yr, is the final main metropolis nonetheless underneath Army management, although the territory managed by the army and its allies has progressively shrunk.
The RSF has launched near-daily artillery and drone strikes and overrun the displacement camps surrounding town, reportedly killing lots of and extorting survivors for secure passage.
Millions displaced
Between Tuesday (October 7, 2025) and Wednesday (October 8, 2025), 20 folks have been killed in RSF strikes on El-Fasher Hospital, one of many final functioning well being services within the metropolis.
Last month, at the very least 75 folks have been killed in a single drone strike on a mosque.
Across Sudan, the conflict has displaced hundreds of thousands and pushed almost 25 million into acute starvation, creating what the United Nations says are the world’s largest starvation and displacement crises.
It has additionally killed tens of 1000’s of individuals, however there is no such thing as a official toll, with many of the wounded unable to entry hospitals and survivors pressured to bury their lifeless wherever they’ll.
The RSF’s siege on El-Fasher has triggered mass hunger within the metropolis, the place households have for months survived on animal feed, however even that has grown scarce and now prices lots of of {dollars} per sack.
If town falls to the paramilitaries, the RSF can be answerable for the complete Darfur area, the place they’ve sought to ascertain a rival administration.
The Army holds the nation’s north, centre and east.
Published – October 09, 2025 10:19 pm IST
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