North Darfur Governor Al-Hafiz Bakhit criticized the recent calls by Al-Hadi Idris, head of the Sudan Liberation Movement–Transitional Council, urging residents to leave El-Fasher. He accused the “Tasis” alliance, led by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), of orchestrating forced recruitment campaigns targeting young men.
In a press statement, Bakhit described Al-Hadi Idris’s calls to empty the city as “cheap propaganda aimed at recruiting youth.”
He added that the areas where displaced residents are being taken—controlled by Al-Hadi Idris’s forces and by the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid Al-Nur—are “unsafe.”
Bakhit affirmed that El-Fasher remains secure and revealed a slight improvement in living conditions over the past two days, with more goods, including staple grains, reappearing in the markets.
He accused the RSF militia and its allies of failing to capture El-Fasher by force, resorting instead to starvation as a weapon—a tactic that also failed, according to him.
Bakhit noted that arrangements by the central government to break the siege are progressing well, adding: “Within two days, you will hear good news, and there will be a breakthrough.”
