The Rapid Support Forces (FSR), a paramilitary group engaged in a war against the Khartoum regime since April 2023, claimed Saturday the capture of the town of Al-Tina, located on the border with Chad.
Published on: 02/22/2026 - 08:01 Modified on: 02/22/2026 - 10:32
Sudanese paramilitaries claimed Saturday, February 21, the capture of the town of Al-Tina, on the border with Chad, after seizing two neighboring towns in December.
It was previously held by the Joint Forces, allies of the regular Sudanese army, which has been engaged since April 2023 in a war against the paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (FSR).
The RSF say they have "taken full control of the strategic town of Al-Tina, in the state of North Darfur", according to a statement published on their Telegram channel accompanied by a video showing fighters celebrating this advance under a banner in the name of the town.
The army did not immediately react.
The governor of pro-army Darfur, Minni Minnawi, for his part denounced “repeated criminal behavior which embodies the worst forms of abuses against innocent people”.
“Acts of genocide” according to the UN
The paramilitaries have controlled almost the entire vast region of Darfur, in the west of the country, since the capture of El-Facher, the army's last bastion, at the end of October.
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This capture was marked, according to numerous reports, by massacres, rapes and kidnappings. On Thursday, the independent UN fact-finding mission on Sudan reported "acts of genocide".
The RSF have since carried out several attacks near the border with Chad, killing two members of the Chadian army at the end of December.
The war in Sudan has left tens of thousands dead and uprooted, in its darkest hours, 14 million people, causing what the UN describes as "the worst humanitarian crisis in the world".
With AFP
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