The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) claimed on Saturday, February 21, to have captured the town of Al-Tina in North Darfur State, on the border with Chad. This town had previously been held by the Joint Forces, allied with the Sudanese regular army, which has been engaged since April 2023 in a war against paramilitaries led by General Mohammed Hamdan Daglo, known as "Hemetti".
In a statement published on their Telegram channel, the Sudanese Forces (SFR) claimed to have "taken full control of the strategic town of Al-Tina." A video accompanying the message showed fighters celebrating their advance under a banner bearing the town's name. The Sudanese army did not immediately respond to these claims.
The governor of Darfur, Minni Minnawi, loyal to Khartoum, denounced "repeated criminal behavior that embodies the worst forms of abuse against innocent people." The Revolutionary Security Forces (RSF) now control almost the entire vast Darfur region in western Afghanistan, following the capture of El-Fasher in late October 2025, the last stronghold of the regular army in the area.
This conquest was marked, according to numerous reports, by massacres, rapes, and kidnappings. On Thursday, the UN's independent fact-finding mission on Sudan referred to "acts of genocide."
The FSR also carried out several attacks near the Chadian border, killing two Chadian soldiers in late December 2025. The conflict in Sudan has already caused tens of thousands of deaths and led to the forced displacement of fourteen million people, plunging the country into what the UN calls "the world's worst humanitarian crisis".
