Sudan's RSF paramilitary forces reportedly launch an attack on the army's last stronghold in Darfur, where tens of thousands of civilians are trapped.

At the opening of the regional conference on the right to information in the Sahel, held on 27 October in Dakar as part of the International African Media Fair (SIMA), Mauritania, Liberia and Gambia formally endorsed the Declaration on the Right to Information in the Sahel.

The paramilitary group RSF has been going door to door to find and kill non-Arabs in El-Fasher, the city in Sudan’s Darfur region they recently captured, and dumping the dead in piles. The scale of massacres is such that piles of bodies and pools of blood are visible in satellite imagery.

Tens of thousands of people have fled from Sudan's El Fasher to a nearby refugee camp, after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the last major city in Sudan's western Darfur region that was held by the Sudanese army.

Nearly a year after the start of the protests — sparked by the deadly collapse of the canopy of a railway station in northern Serbia on 1 November 2024 — journalists covering them continue to be targeted.

With frequent reports of mass killings from Sudan’s Darfur following RSF’s victory, fears have mounted that the region’s non-Arab communities could be on the brink of ethnic cleansing. Previously, RSF and its allies killed around 300,

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have taken the city of El Fasher, Darfur — trapping hundreds of thousands and stoking fears of mass killings.