Overview
- UN human rights chief Volker Türk urged swift international action, calling to extend the Darfur arms embargo to all of Sudan to curb the flow of weapons.
- UN monitors reported roughly 90 civilians killed and more than 140 injured over two weeks by drone strikes that hit markets, homes, health facilities and a World Food Programme convoy in Kordofan.
- The Arab League, United Nations, European Union, African Union and IGAD issued a joint appeal for progress on a humanitarian truce before Ramadan and for an immediate halt to military escalation.
- US presidential adviser Massad Boulos said a Quad initiative with the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt is nearing a truce proposal with preliminary buy‑in from both sides, though expert analysis warns prospects remain limited in the short term.
- Investigations detail atrocity crimes during the RSF’s capture of El Fasher, with the ICC finding war crimes and crimes against humanity, and Türk stressing that both the RSF and the Sudanese army must protect civilians.