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Thread about the civil war in Sudan Apr 12- Oct 11,2025.
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1)Sudan: UN says 53 civilians killed during 3 days of attacks by the RSF in and near el-Fasher camp Abu Shouk in North Darfur apnews.com/article/sudan-… x.com/Milatrud11/sta…

1b) Control, choke points: The battle lines in southern Sudan (Kordofan (Bara))

The Sudanese army (SAF)’s gains may enable it to choke off the RSF’s supply lines and eventually enter Darfur, analysts say. aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/1…

2) Sudan's fertile region where food is rotting amid famine and war:
Jebel Marra in North Darfur is the last remaining territory controlled by the Sudan Liberation Army - Abdulwahid (SLA-AW). This armed group has remained neutral in the current war. bbc.com/news/articles/…

3) Sudan:The RSF on Oct 26, 2025 say they captured the army headquarters in el-Fasher:

The RSF had besieged the city, capital of North Darfur state, for the past 18 months. dw.com/en/sudans-rsf-…

3b) "The RSF continues its deadly attacks against the Muslim Brotherhood-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)
After taking El Fasher, they’re now pounding Kadugli (in yellow), capital of South Kordofan state.
14 SAF soldiers were killed in a drone strike()"

3c)Sudan: Ethnically motivated mass killings and other atrocities reported in North Darfur capital seized by paramilitary group RSF on Oct 26,2025:

RSF accused of killing 2,000+ civilians of non-Arab Fur, Zaghawa,Berti tribes in El Fasher acc/to Yale lab theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…

3d) Sudan: Miliz im Blutrausch|D.Johnson taz.de/Sudankrieg/!61…

Sudan: Nun droht ein Völkermord mit Ansage:
Al-Faschir/Fasher an die RSF-Miliz gefallen, ihre Kämpfer massakrieren Zivilisten.
Doch die Welt schaut zu, ohne zu handeln.
|Andrea Böhm zeit.de/politik/auslan…

4)"Sudan: Massive Reinforcement:
A historic national uprising surges toward Kordofan and Darfur — thousands of soldiers,hundreds of vehicles, one mission:
to crush the UAE-backed [RSF] militias and reclaim every inch of Sudan’s land and honor."

5) Sudan: RSF which claimed control of El Fasher, North Darfur on Oct 26,2025, reportedly killed at least 460 patients and staff at the Saudi hospital ‘in cold blood’: WHO and and the Sudan Doctors Network theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…

6)Sudan: RSF captured remaining SAF positions in
el Fasher (North Darfur), giving the group control of all population centers in Darfur and solidifying a de facto partition (pic 2). criticalthreats.org/analysis/sudan…

7)Sudan: The RSF’s recapture of Bara and um Dam Haj Ahmed hinders SAF efforts to reinforce and use el Obeid to launch offensives targeting RSF-besieged towns and RSF-controlled western Sudan.

Control of terrain in Sudan`s Kordofan region:

8)"The Baggara Arab nomads are the ethnicity that make up the ethnic base of the RSF.. and they move their cattle to graze along this belt in search of grazing pastor...
RSF..has promised their cousins across the border that “once they conquer Sudan” they will grant them land()"

9)Exclusive: Inside the UAE's secret Sudan war operation at Somalia's Bosaso:
Colombian mercenaries, regular transport flights and cargo marked 'hazardous' eveals a vast covert operation fuelling the RSF massacres in el-Fasher middleeasteye.net/news/inside-ua…

10) From Mar 28,2025:
How Abu Dhabi built an axis of secessionists across the region:
From North Africa to the Gulf, the UAE has aggressively expanded its counter-revolutionary strategy in the wake of the Arab Spring | Andreas Krieg RSFmiddleeasteye.net/big-story/abu-…

11) Sudan: Attack by RSF at funeral in army-held el-Obeid, oil-rich North Kordofan: 40 killed.
OCHA: “The security situation in the Kordofan region continues to worsen aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/5…

12) "Al-Qaeda has released a strongly worded statement condemning UAE, [an "Arab Zionist"]
formally declaring it as a target by attributing recent reported atrocities in Sudan to its actions
and calling on individuals to initiate attacks within the UAE.()"

13) "UN investigators and human-rights monitors say they keep finding patterns of UAE support to RSF:
cargo manifests that don’t match deliveries;
munitions with serial numbers leading back to Emirati depots;
and RSF commanders boasting of outside help."thetimes.com/world/africa/a…

14) "Investigation reveals that the fall of el-Fasher was engineered through a UAE-backed electronic warfare campaign
()it was a calculated tech siege. On 26 October, all communication systems in the besieged city went offline.
Radios,Thuraya phones,.."

15) Libyan Haftar forces ‘key fuel supplier’ to Sudan's RSF on behalf of UAE:
Surge in fuel smuggling from Libya benefits Sudanese paramilitaries backed by Abu Dhabi while costing billions of dollars in lost revenue, report by The Sentry says middleeasteye.net/news/haftar-fo…

15b)Report by The Sentry:
Haftar's youngest son Saddam, who leads his father’s Libyan Arab Armed Forces (LAAF), is identified as the primary force behind the surge in fuel smuggling.
"()Saddam Haftar's forces also coordinated occasional arms transfers to the RSF in Darfur ()"

15c)In addition to the RSF, the Sentry identifies Russia as another of the main beneficiaries of Libya’s illegal fuel trafficking,which enables Moscow’s military activities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Russia’s military support is seen as essential in maintaining Haftar’s dominance

15bb)Sentry report about fuel smuggling in Libya since 2021
The fuel smuggling fund Haftar’s dictatorship in the east, bankroll armed groups in the west, supply Russia`s military units in Africa, and enable Hemedti’s RSF in Sudan.thesentry.org/reports/inside…
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16)EU-made weapons fuel war crimes in Sudan, envoy Abdelbagi Kabeir says:

European countries must stop selling arms to the UAE, urges Sudanese ambassador, as probes trace flow of military gear from Abu Dhabi to the RSF politico.eu/article/sudan-…

17) Battles in West Kordofan as Sudan army resists RSF’s eastward push:

Reports of the desperate humanitarian situation and atrocities continue to mount as paramilitary RSF pushes eastwards. aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/1…

18)The Long Wave:
"An existential battle of interests: what the Sudanese war is actually about

A bitter race to claim economic and political power has divided the country and the human cost can no longer be ignored" | Nesrine Malik

Sudantheguardian.com/news/2025/nov/…

19) The war in Sudan is increasingly being fought on the battlefield of social media, where competing factions trade fake news,doctored videos,triumphalist propaganda, hardening divisions in a country already fractured by years of conflict, analysts warn.barrons.com/news/sudan-s-p…

20)Sudan: Women and girls fleeing El Fasher describe widespread RSF sexual violence
“Each time,a group would arrive in military vehicles, take us to a room, and rape us violently before leaving.”|A journalist in Tawila, and A human rights monitor in Tawila thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2…

21) Social media accounts linked to Sudan's RSF are based in the UAE:
X and Facebook accounts of political figures connected to paramilitary are run out of the Emirates middleeasteye.net/news/social-me…

22) 3:47 min video:
Why has the UAE escaped scrutiny over its role in Sudan? dw.com/en/why-has-the…

23)Exclusive: Sudan's RSF took blood from civilians trying to flee el-Fasher:
Victims, witnesses and aid workers tell MEE that Rapid Support Forces fighters have forcibly extracted blood from displaced Sudanese middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive…

24)More than 1,600 people flee Sudan’s South Kordofan in single day:

Sudanese flee Kertala as RSF attacks in South Kordofan escalate, driving mass displacement across Sudan.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/1…

25) RSF massacres left Sudanese city ‘a slaughterhouse’, satellite images show:
British MPs have been briefed that at least 60,000 have been murdered in El Fasher.
Up to 150,000 residents are missing since North Darfur capital fell to paramilitary RSF theguardian.com/global-develop…

26)@AfriMEOSINT"major setback today for the SAF,not only militarily but also economically and politically,as the RSF seized Heglig town,home to Sudan’s largest oil field[&]the main processing hub for South Sudan’s oil exports,which provide nearly all of Juba’s government revenue"

26b)"The RSF has captured Babanusa and the Heglig oilfields,().
RSF control of West Kordofan solidifies Sudan's de facto partition and enables both sides to concentrate resources around el Obeid in North and South Kordofan.🧵1/4"

27) Sudan: Drone attack by the RSF on a kindergarten and a hospital in Kalogi, South Kordofan region on Dec 4,2025: acc/to the WHO: 114 killed incl 63 children
bbc.com/news/articles/…

28) "Serbia as an emerging "autonomous ecosystem" for the assembly, modification and remanufacturing of Chinese 🇨🇳 drones for the Sudan conflict via UAE.
Africa Intelligence revealed a complex UCAV supply chain in Sudan()" Serbien,Drohnen,Emirate,RSF

29)Sudan: UK sanctions 4 RSF commanders over 'mass killings' in El Fasher:

Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo,bro of Hemedti, was resp for "grave breaches" of humanitarian law,among them mass killings,ethnically targeted executions,sexual violence incl gang rape.news.sky.com/story/sudan-uk…

30)Sudan:“The little that's known at the moment about the current conditions in El Fasher is indeed beyond horrific,” said Ross Smith(WFP):“We know that there's anywhere between 70 and 100,000 people potentially remaining trapped inside the city itself.”news.un.org/en/story/2025/…

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