October 2023 · South Darfur Theater
October 2023
Nyala, Sudan's third-largest city and the capital of South Darfur State, fell to RSF forces in October 2023 after weeks of fighting. The RSF overran SAF positions in the city using its standard tactics of encirclement by mobile columns and denial of resupply. The fall of Nyala effectively completed RSF control over most of Darfur outside El Fasher. The city's civilian population — including hundreds of thousands of displaced people sheltering in camps from the 2003–08 genocide — was subjected to looting, violence, and ethnic targeting. International aid agencies were forced to evacuate.
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