Mass grave with 25 bodies found in Sudan’s Kurmuk after army retakes town

What the report says

Sudanese armed forces have found a mass grave containing at least 25 bodies in Kurmuk, a town in Sudan’s Blue Nile State, according to Al Jazeera’s report published on 11 August 2026. Local officials said the discovery was made after the army retook the area about a month earlier, following weeks of heavy fighting. The commissioner of Kurmuk, Abdel Aty Mohamed al-Faki, said the remains included children, women and hospital staff.

Officials accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of carrying out the killings during their occupation of the town. Al-Faki said the victims were executed near Jebel Fankat, a hilltop position the RSF had used for drone attacks. The RSF did not immediately comment, and Al Jazeera noted that the group has faced similar accusations in other parts of Sudan, including Khartoum, el-Fasher and Gezira state.

The discovery comes amid continued fighting in Blue Nile State, where Al Jazeera said RSF drone attacks were still taking place. The report also described ongoing combat in West Darfur. More broadly, the Sudan war between the army and the RSF, which began in April 2023, has driven mass displacement and a large civilian death toll, according to figures cited in the report from the World Health Organization.