A unit of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) surrendered to the army, handing over its personnel and full military equipment, according to the state-run Sudan News Agency (SUNA).
The agency said on Friday the force belonged to the RSF’s “Group 26” but did not specify the number of members involved or the type of equipment surrendered.
It said the group was received by Al-Nour Ahmed Adam, known as Al-Nour al-Qubba, alongside senior officers from the Sudanese army and the General Intelligence Service.
Al-Nour al-Qubba, one of the RSF’s founding members, defected to the army in April after previously serving among the paramilitary’s senior commanders and taking part in the battles for Al Fasher, capital of North Darfur state, which the group captured in October 2025.
He said the regular armed forces received the surrendering group and similar surrenders were continuing, with several RSF members having joined the army in recent months.
Al-Nour al-Qubba described the RSF as lacking “principles, a cause and a strategy", adding that foreign support for the group “will not change the outcome of the battle” and serves only “personal interests".
Capt. Othman Al-Nour Hasab Khalil, one of the surrendered fighters, said he joined the Sudanese army together with the group after arriving from the city of Bara in North Kordofan state.
He urged his former colleagues in the RSF to abandon the fighting and join the army, saying the decision to surrender was driven by the war’s “racial and regional character” and by the group’s sense of marginalisation.
There was no immediate comment from the RSF.
Since April 2023, Sudan has been engulfed in war between the army and the RSF. The conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced millions of others and triggered one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
The war pits the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), commanded by Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, known as Hemedti.
The SAF is the country’s regular military and has long been the dominant arm of the state.
The RSF, by contrast, grew out of militant groups known as the Janjaweed, infamous for their role in atrocities during the Darfur war of the 2000s.
In April 2023, fighting exploded between the two forces in Khartoum and across the country.
The RSF used urban warfare tactics to seize large parts of the capital and much of Darfur, while the army relied on air strikes and artillery.
After 18 months of siege, the RSF captured Al Fasher, the army’s stronghold in Darfur.
Witnesses and aid groups reported mass killings, starvation, and systematic attacks on civilians by RSF.
