Mass graves found in Sudan’s Kurmuk after town recaptured from RSF
August 9, 2026 (KURMUK) – Mass graves containing the bodies of 25 civilians, including women, children, and hospital staff executed by the Rapid Support Forces, have been discovered in Sudan’s Blue Nile region, a local official said on Sunday.
The discovery in Kurmuk comes after similar mass graves were found in Khartoum and Gezira states following the military’s recapture of those areas from the RSF.
Abdel Aty Mohamed al Faki, commissioner of Kurmuk, said in a statement that army forces found the graves during sweeping operations in the northeastern part of the town, more than a month after driving out the paramilitary group.
El Faki said the victims were executed near Jebel Fankat, a hill the RSF used as a launchpad for suicide drones during its assault on the town.
The Sudanese army recaptured Kurmuk on July 8. The RSF had seized the strategic border town on March 8 in a joint operation launched from the Ethiopian border alongside the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North faction led by Abdel Aziz al-Hilu.
Rights monitors and residents have accused the RSF of widespread atrocities during its occupation of Kurmuk and neighbouring areas in Blue Nile, including extrajudicial killings, looting, and forced displacement.
Kurmuk, which borders Ethiopia, has long been a flashpoint in Sudan’s conflicts, frequently changing hands between government forces and rebel groups during the country’s decades-long civil wars.