As fighting intensifies across Darfur and reports of mass killings, sexual violence, and ethnically motivated detentions continue to mount, covert field teams are quietly gathering evidence from areas that remain largely inaccessible to journalists and human rights organizations.

In a covert operation, a force of around 280 fighters, including field commanders, arrived in Khartoum on July 23, 2026, after breaking away from areas controlled by the RSF militia and declaring their allegiance to the Sudanese army.

The Sudanese Army’s recapture of Kurmuk reshaped the balance of power in southeastern Sudan, closing an attritional front that the UAE-backed RSF militias had sought to turn into a pressure point against the army.

Sudan’s war has become a systematic assault on civilian infrastructure, driving a nationwide humanitarian collapse marked by hunger, disease, and displacement.

Hemedti is forming a parallel government and a “new army” in Sudan amid defections and allegations of foreign support, but it remains unrecognized and unlikely to shift the war’s balance.