RSF and Allies Advance into Sudan’s Kurmuk Near Ethiopian Border, Army Says
Sudanese military and government sources say the RSF and allied forces advanced into Kurmuk in Blue Nile state, a strategic town near the Ethiopian border.
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- Sudanese military and government sources say the RSF and allied forces advanced into Kurmuk in Blue Nile state, a strategic town near the Ethiopian border.
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied fighters advanced into Kurmuk in Blue Nile state near the Ethiopian border, according to Sudanese military and government sources cited by Al Jazeera on August 13, 2026.
The reported movement would bring the RSF and its allies into a strategically sensitive border area. The available source record did not provide independently verified information about control of the town, casualties or displacement.
The development follows fighting elsewhere in Blue Nile state. An earlier Ethiopian source record reported competing accounts of an RSF attack on Geissan on August 11, including an allegation from a Sudanese army source that the assault began from Ethiopian territory. That allegation has not been independently verified and is not evidence of Ethiopian government involvement.
AddisMizan is treating the latest account as a developing conflict report. Claims about battlefield movements remain attributed to the military and government sources that made them, pending further confirmation.
