Paramilitary
Appears in 17 stories · Last updated Nov 9, 2026
Fighting the Sudanese army
Ahmed Haroun has been a wanted man since 2007, when the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his role in the Darfur campaign. On Sunday, Sudanese soldiers took him from his home in Omdurman, one day after he gave his first filmed interview in seven years.
Updated 3 days ago
Accused by Sudan's government of launching drone attacks on power stations from Ethiopian territory; the UN expects talks with the RSF-aligned bloc before late December
Drone strikes killed civilians in West Kordofan, South Kordofan and Blue Nile in the first days of November, adding to a toll that includes at least 153 dead at Amiet Market in Abyei on October 19. The October 26 strike on Tanqong Market in Nyala is now put at 188 killed and 356 wounded by the Sudan Founding Alliance's Government of Peace and Unity, figures not independently verified.
Controls Nyala; its fighters gathered at the market before the strike
A drone struck a crowded market in Nyala, South Darfur, on the evening of 26 October. Emergency Lawyers, a Sudanese rights group, says more than 100 people died and 113 were wounded, while the local Tasees health ministry put the toll at 188 dead and 356 injured. Doctors Without Borders said the hospital it supports received 36 bodies, 21 of them in civilian clothes.
Updated 6 days ago
Losing senior commanders and field leaders to defections
Major General Siddiq Ander left Sudan's Rapid Support Forces on October 30, saying the paramilitary is run as a family business by relatives of its leader, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti. He also broke with the civilian Tasis alliance and called on other fighters to join the national army.
Accused of launching drone strikes from Ethiopian territory
Ethiopia ordered six Sudanese consular staff in the border town of Asosa to leave within 48 hours and shut the consulate. Sudan answered by closing Ethiopia's consulate in Gadarif and declaring its diplomats persona non grata.
Not a party to the case; the backdrop to it
An Abu Dhabi appeals court sentenced eight people to life in prison on 29 October for running weapons and ammunition to Sudan's army through the United Arab Emirates. The list includes the army's armament chief, Yasser Al Atta, and its former intelligence director, Salah Gosh.
Updated Nov 1
Half of the sanctioned commanders are RSF officers
Britain froze the assets and banned the travel of 15 Sudanese commanders on 26 October 2026, a year after El Fasher fell to the Rapid Support Forces. The Foreign Office has not said whether any of them holds money in Britain.
Updated Oct 29
Controls Nyala, base of the Sudan Founding Alliance administration; blames the army for the market strike and demands an independent inquiry
More than 100 people were killed in a drone strike on the Tangooj night market in Nyala on October 26, according to the Emergency Lawyers rights group, and the administration that runs the city has since put the toll at 188 dead and 356 wounded. Neither count has been independently verified.
Updated Oct 28
Fighting the SAF; diplomats say fuel bound for its forces moves through Abyei
A drone strike on Amiet market in Abyei killed at least 153 people, Abyei's information minister said, more than double the first toll of 73 as fires kept burning. UN peacekeepers said they could confirm at least 80 deaths and were still checking, with others missing.
Updated Oct 26
Fighting Sudan's army in the civil war
Satellite images analysed by AFP place the October 10 strike on an artisanal gold mine inside the Halayeb Triangle, a border area both Egypt and Sudan claim. The strike hit about 8.7km north of the 22nd parallel; Emergency Lawyers says at least 114 miners were killed.
Updated Oct 25
One of the two warring parties; UN documents a wave of October drone strikes attributed to the force
Drone strikes killed at least 306 people across Sudan in the first three weeks of October, the UN human rights office said on 23 October, attributing them to both the army and the Rapid Support Forces. The deadliest hit a transport truck in Dibab, West Kordofan, on 18 October, killing at least 139 in what the office called a repeat "double tap" strike.
Updated Oct 24
Controls West Kordofan and much of Darfur
Drone strikes on a funeral convoy in West Kordofan and a fuel market in the disputed Abyei region killed more than 300 people over two days, local officials and the Sudan War Observatory said. Abyei's information minister put the Amiet Market toll at 153 and said fires were still burning as workers recovered bodies.
Updated Oct 22
As of October 2026: Controls Darfur and parts of southern Sudan
The UN Security Council extended its arms embargo on Sudan's Darfur region by two months this week. A US push to broaden the embargo to all of Sudan failed, blocked by Russia and China.
Updated Oct 10
As of October 2026: Lost Sodri and al-Mazroub to army offensive in North Kordofan
The Sudanese Armed Forces has extended its gains in North Kordofan since recapturing Sodri on September 25. On October 2, the army said it captured al-Mazroub, a town about 130 kilometers northwest of El-Obeid.
Updated Oct 5
As of September 2026: At war with the army, holding parts of Darfur and Kordofan
Five million Sudanese have gone home since the army retook Khartoum in 2025. Many are returning to damaged homes, closed schools, and clinics that barely function.
Updated Sep 22
As of July 2026: Lost the El Obeid siege; still controls most of Darfur
For nearly two years, the people of El Obeid lived under a paramilitary siege that cut off food, fuel, and medicine. On July 26, 2026, Sudan's army broke it. Soldiers took the town of Bara and four nearby villages, then seized the full 350-kilometer Al Sadarat highway linking El Obeid to Omdurman.
Updated Jul 27
As of May 2026: Controls western Sudan; accused of genocide in El Fasher
The United Nations reopened its Khartoum headquarters Thursday, nearly three years after staff fled when civil war broke out in April 2023. The Sudanese Armed Forces recaptured the capital in March 2025, and more than two million people have since returned.
Updated May 30
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