Makeshift shelters erected by displaced Sudanese who fled El-Fasher after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), make up the Um Yanqur camp in Sudan's western Darfur region on November 3, 2025. - / AFP
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the regular army for more than two years, announced on Thursday, November 6, that they had agreed to a proposal for a humanitarian truce put forward by mediators. The announcement follows the paramilitaries' capture of the major city of El-Fasher, which dislodged the army from its last stronghold in the vast western Darfur region.
They have since been accused of mass killings, looting and sexual violence there, and have in recent days appeared to turn their focus to the neighboring Kordofan region, where fierce battles are underway.
"In response to the aspirations and interests of the Sudanese people, the Rapid Support Forces affirms its agreement to enter into the humanitarian truce proposed by the Quad countries," the RSF said in a statement, referring to the United States, Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The military-aligned government did not immediately comment on the RSF's announcement.
Earlier in the day, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan had said his forces were still "striving for the defeat of the enemy". "Soon, we will avenge those who have been killed and abused... in all the regions attacked by the rebels," he said, in a televised address. The government had indicated earlier this week that it would press on with the war following an internal meeting on a ceasefire proposal.
