Sudanese residents gather to receive free meals in Al Fasher, a city besieged by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for more than a year, in Darfur region, on August 11, 2025. The governor of Darfur, allied with the Sudanese army, on October 27, 2025, called for the "protection of civilians" in the famine-stricken city of El-Fasher, after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) claimed to have taken control.