Sudan civil war 2026

Musa said he saw RSF fighters kill civilians while chanting religious slogans.

The RSF launched an attack on el-Fasher in August 2025 and captured the Abu Shouk camp.

The RSF has previously denied targeting civilians in Zamzam and el-Fasher, while acknowledging that some fighters committed abuses.

Abubakr Ishaq Hamed Ibrahim returned to Khartoum in February 2026 after being displaced to River Nile state in May 2023.

As of September 30, approximately 5.27 million displaced Sudanese had returned to their homes in nine states, according to the IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix report.

Of the returnees tracked by the IOM, 82 percent had been internally displaced and 18 percent had crossed borders.

The al-Suraiha 8 IDP camp in al-Obeid has 450 registered displaced people, in addition to 40 newly arrived people who have not yet been added to official records, according to camp supervisor Esraa Mohammed.

War erupted in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 15, 2023.

Some 19.5 million people across Sudan face acute hunger, including five million experiencing emergency levels of food shortages.

The attacks on Monday caused widespread power outages across parts of Sudan.

Senior RSF commander Siddiq Ander declared that he had defected in video footage obtained by Al Jazeera.

There have been 18 strikes reported to target Sudan’s electricity network over the past week.

Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Azraq al-Fanjari announced on October 8 that he was leaving the RSF, along with 300 officers and soldiers and 30 military vehicles.

Senior commander Siddiq Ander defected from Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

On October 26, strikes hit a market and residential area in Nyala, an RSF-controlled city in South Darfur.

The Arbaat Dam once supplied half of Port Sudan's daily water needs.

The AfDB reported that Port Sudan's water supply was meeting less than 40 percent of demand.

Khalafallah lives in the Deim Mayo neighbourhood of Port Sudan, which is not connected to a piped water network.

The most senior RSF officer identified around el-Fasher was Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo, deputy commander and brother of RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti.

CIR verified Abdul Rahim Hamdan Dagalo at the army's former 6th Infantry Division base on October 26, 2025, and at the Saudi Hospital on November 4.

The CIR report identifies commanders who exercised authority where atrocities were reported but does not establish that each personally committed or ordered acts of rape.

MSF said a hospital it supports in Nyala received 36 bodies after the strike, 21 of them wearing civilian clothing, and that its teams saw more than 150 wounded in the emergency room.

Sudan Doctors Network preliminarily reported 21 dead and more than 40 wounded from the attack.

Emergency Lawyers reported that Monday's attacks killed more than 100 people and wounded 113.

The court ordered the confiscation of ammunition and communications devices used in the crimes and the deportation of those convicted after serving their sentences.

The UAE has denied the allegation that it supplies arms to the RSF.

A court in the UAE sentenced eight people to life imprisonment over arms trafficking and money laundering related to Sudan's army.

Food prices in urban areas of Sudan were 55 percent higher than a year earlier, up from about 40 percent in August.

In Khartoum State, prices were nearly 60 percent higher in September than a year earlier.

Musa's husband is a member of the Sudanese military who has spent more than eight months on the front lines and has not sent money.

The signatories urged the warring parties to allow humanitarian operations through all routes across front lines and borders, including air access to Darfur.

The IPC said a drought linked to El Nino had driven up food prices and reduced supplies in Sudan this year.

Last month, the US State Department said that neither the Sudanese army nor the RSF represent legitimate, constitutional governance for Sudan.

The Sudanese military has been at war with the RSF since April 2023.

The RSF has declared an administration in Nyala rivalling the military-backed, internationally recognised government in Khartoum.

On Monday, the United States, the European Union and 30 other countries warned of an alarming deterioration in food access in Sudan and called for urgent action to prevent famine.

The statement estimates that 19.5 million people or 41% of Sudan's population are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, including five million facing emergency levels of hunger.

The statement was published by the US state department on Monday after first appearing on the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations website.

The joint statement warns that the number of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition could exceed the projected 825,000 without immediate action.

Sanctions were announced against Hussein Abu Jalak, an RSF colonel linked to atrocities during the siege of el-Fasher.

UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said those who perpetrated crimes against humanity must be held accountable.

Sanctions were announced against Al-Nour Ahmed Adam, also known as al-Qubba.

Sudan's Transport Chambers Union raised intercity bus fares by 40% and minibus fares by 30% in October 2026.

Economic analyst Sidi Ohaj said government requirements stipulate that petroleum importers must deposit 200kg of gold in the Central Bank and own fuel storage facilities to operate in Sudan.

Before the war, a bus journey from Aziza Ibrahim's home to the main transport station in Port Sudan city centre cost 700 Sudanese pounds per passenger; fares have since risen to 2,500 pounds on some routes.

The BBC's Africa correspondent Barbara Plett Usher spoke to two doctors who support the claims of systemic targeting of hospitals.

Under international law, it is illegal to attack health facilities or their staff during conflict.

UN human rights chief Volker Türk called the BBC investigation's findings "deeply disturbing".

The RSF's health minister described the allegations as propaganda and a deliberate attempt by the national army and its allies to smear the RSF's reputation.

Dr Alaa Eldin Nugud, the RSF-backed health minister, insisted South Hospital was being used as a military base.

WHO satellite imagery appeared to show clusters of bodies on the grounds of the Saudi Hospital.

The attack took place at Amiet Market, north of Abyei town.

Abyei is claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan and is jointly administered.

The war between Sudan's army and the RSF began in April 2023.

A drone strike near a market in Abyei has killed at least 150 people.

Abyei is a disputed region near the Sudan-South Sudan border.

Fighting between Sudan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has intensified in recent days.

South Sudan has summoned Sudan's ambassador to lodge a formal protest over the attack.

A military source cited by AFP said air defences in Khartoum had downed several other drones launched by the RSF towards the airport.

A truck carrying around 200 mourners was hit as it arrived in the town of Al-Dabab in West Kordofan, according to the Sudan War Observatory.

The United States urged the UN Security Council to push for a humanitarian truce and expand an arms embargo on Sudan, but China and Russia opposed widening the embargo.

The fighting in Sudan has killed at least 59,000 people, according to conflict monitor ACLED.

The UN says about 13 million people have been forced from their homes in Sudan.

The current war in Sudan began in April 2023 when military leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo fell out over plans to fold the paramilitary into Sudan's army.

The United States urged the UN Security Council to push for a humanitarian truce and expand an arms embargo on Sudan, but China and Russia opposed widening the embargo.

A drone attack on the RSF stronghold of Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, killed 17 people including seven RSF officers on Monday, according to medical and RSF sources.

JNIM and Azawad Liberation Front fighters tortured and executed at least 19 Malian troops they had taken prisoner.

HRW sent a letter to Mali's defence minister on August 5 with its findings and questions but received no response.

Members of the military-allied Dozo militia killed three civilians in the central region of Mopti.

The RSF and its allies say a crowded livestock market was hit.

Sudan's army says it struck RSF command centres in South Darfur.

The UN says drone strikes are now the leading cause of civilian deaths in Sudan.

Hasanat al-Rashid is a 48-year-old who has lived with diabetes for 15 years.

A month's supply of Fatima Adam's medication cost 160,000 Sudanese pounds ($17.80).

Only eight of the 30 pharmaceutical factories in Khartoum that shut down during the conflict have resumed operations, according to the National Medicines and Poisons Board.

The United Nations has described the situation in Sudan as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

Emergency Lawyers said a market was hit on Friday in Nyala and the drone used was affiliated with the Sudanese army.

The Sudanese army says it killed dozens of RSF fighters in air attacks on Nyala.

The Halaib Triangle is a 20,580 square kilometer area on the African coast of the Red Sea.

Sudan's gold has been a key source of financing for both sides in the civil war.

The rights group Emergency Lawyers accused the Egyptian military of targeting civilian miners in the North Wadi area of Jabal al-Uqaydat.

Poor vegetation growth affects nearly two-thirds of cropland in North Darfur and about half in South Darfur, West Kordofan, and South Kordofan.

The conflict in Sudan has killed at least 150,000 people according to conflict monitor ACLED.

The Sudanese army holds sway in Sudan's central and eastern regions, while the Darfur region in the west and parts of the south are under control of the RSF.

Egypt has issued no official comment on the attack.

The reported attack cannot be independently verified.

The attack occurred in the border region of Jabal al-Uqaydat.

The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs said initial reports suggested most of the casualties were women and children.

Both the Sudanese army and the RSF have been accused of using drone attacks.

The conflict has killed hundreds of thousands and displaced more than 14 million people.

Sudan's UN ambassador Al-Harith Mohamed argued that a total embargo goes against the UN Charter's guarantee of the right to self-defence.

Russia and China opposed the proposal to widen the embargo.

The Security Council failed to agree on a US proposal to expand the arms embargo to all of Sudan.

The attack struck Wad al-Mahi province near the city of Damazin.

Governor Mahjoub Al-Sheikh said the drone was launched from inside Ethiopia.

Aid workers estimate Sudan's civil war has killed more than 200,000 people since it started in April 2023.

The Dar Hamar Emergency Committee accused the RSF of multiple violations against civilians in Abu Ajal village in the southeastern countryside of En Nahud.

More than 5,500 people were displaced from villages in Sudan's Blue Nile state over three days amid deteriorating security, according to the IOM.

The conflict in Sudan has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced around 13 million, according to UN and international estimates.

Sudan urged member states to reject the resolution, stating the council had failed to take its reservations into account.

The council adopted a resolution extending the mandate of its independent international fact-finding mission for Sudan by a vote of 28 to 10, with nine abstentions.

The war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces began in April 2023.

An air strike on UN trucks killed a driver in Sudan's South Kordofan.

The civil war in Sudan has forcibly displaced 14 million people.

Since the war began in April 2023, one in five attacks in Sudan has occurred in the Kordofan region.

The Sudanese army announced it had delivered a “knockout blow” to the RSF and the SPLM-N in Blue Nile state.

The SAF controls Khartoum and most of Sudan’s north, east and centre.

Sudan’s civil war erupted in April 2023 in Khartoum.

The Sudan Doctors Network accused the RSF-allied Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North of carrying out an artillery attack in the town of Dilling in South Kordofan province.

The military said fierce battles resulted in casualties among the RSF forces and heavy combat vehicle losses.

Fighting in Sudan's Kordofan region has intensified since late 2025.

The US imposed new sanctions on SAF military procurement networks in June.

The US State Department issued a statement arguing that neither the SAF, the RSF, nor their leaders represent legitimate constitutional governance for Sudan.

The US imposed chemical weapons sanctions on Sudan in July.

On September 9, a drone strike on a college in el-Obeid killed a security guard and destroyed the faculty building.

Sheikan is home to el-Obeid, a commercial and administrative hub linking central Sudan with the west.

The IOM reported that newly displaced people in Kordofan since October 2025 rose 65 percent in four months, from more than 132,000 in February to at least 219,000 by late June.

Dozens of motorcycles were impounded in Sudan's Blue Nile State.

Riders of the impounded motorcycles were accused of flouting a curfew between 5:00 PM and 6:00 AM.

The curfew was imposed by the army amid fighting with paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

More than 11 million Sudanese people have been displaced.

Approximately 6.4 million people in Sudan are internally displaced.

Most refugees are living on less than half of the minimum amount of water needed daily.

The war in Sudan began in April 2023 and is between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

The World Bank estimates that extreme poverty in Sudan rose from 48 percent in 2023 to 59 percent in 2025.

More than five million people in Sudan faced extreme, life-threatening food shortages and 135,000 were at risk of famine.

Local agencies reported in July 2025 that Sudan’s gold production reached 64 tonnes in 2024, generating $1.57bn in legal export revenues.

It is unclear how many people are trapped in the collapsed mine.

Joseph Tucker said Sudan’s economic crisis fuels demand for gold and willingness of miners to work in poor conditions.

Mohammed Abdul Rahman is an economic researcher.

The current hunger crisis in Sudan has triggered famines in 2024 and 2025.

The war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces erupted in April 2023.

Sudan's civil war erupted in April 2023 after months of tensions between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The Jeddah Declaration temporarily facilitated limited humanitarian access before collapsing after both factions repeatedly violated the terms.

The war in Sudan has forcibly displaced 14 million people.

Abyei's status has remained unresolved since South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011.

At least 26 people were killed and 82 others injured in intercommunal fighting in a disputed region on the border between South Sudan and Sudan.

South Sudan is due to hold its first elections since independence in December.

The IOM warned that without immediate donor support, shelter and aid relief supplies are expected to be depleted by the end of the month.

Ongoing fighting, heavy rains, and continued displacement threaten to bring an imminent end to Sudan's emergency relief supply via the IOM's Common Humanitarian Pipeline.

The war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces erupted in April 2023.

The current war in Sudan has displaced some 13 million people.

Sudan's UN Ambassador Al-Harith Mohamed said a total arms embargo goes against the UN Charter's guarantee that countries have the right to self-defence.

Up to 300,000 people died in the Darfur conflict and 2.7 million fled their homes.

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has increased its use of drones in areas controlled by the Sudanese Armed Forces.

Local sources say an RSF drone attack on a court in Sudan’s North Kordofan state has wounded more than 20 people.

Local sources say an RSF drone attack on a court in Sudan’s North Kordofan state has killed at least 13 people.

A voluntary programme intends to fly at least 1,300 Sudanese refugees back home.

Jamal Mubarak says he is returning to Sudan because it has not been easy to find a job in Uganda.

The UN says Uganda hosts more than 96,000 Sudanese refugees.

Mohammad Ibrahim, head of MSF in Sudan, said the organisation has been overwhelmed as funding for other aid efforts disappears.

MSF said that about 37 percent of Sudan's health facilities are out of service.

The war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has killed at least 59,000 people since it erupted in April 2023.

In May 2026, 45 healthcare centres in central Darfur stopped receiving funding, according to MSF.

The US closed USAID last year, according to MSF.

MSF reported that 1,620 people were killed in attacks on medical facilities in Sudan in 2025, accounting for 82% of global deaths from such attacks.

The SPLM-N is a breakaway faction of the SPLM, the governing party of South Sudan.

At least five people, including a child, were killed in an attack by a Sudanese rebel group in South Kordofan province.

According to the World Health Organization, nearly 34 million people in Sudan require urgent humanitarian assistance.

The report said repeated RSF drone strikes in el-Obeid, North Kordofan between July and August may constitute serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law and may amount to war crimes.

Mission member Mona Rishmawi said external support fed into RSF operations in Zamzam camp and during the takeover of el-Fasher, where the Mission documented grave human rights violations including conduct displaying hallmarks of genocide.

RSF drone strikes in Kalogi, South Kordofan killed 114 people.

Residents of Golo in Sudan's central Darfur are clearing and repairing a rugged road by hand to help emergency vehicles reach their community.

Massive boulders obstruct the road, making the repair effort often futile.

Date palm trees are an economic lifeline for residents of Northern State, Sudan.

Drought and successive wildfires in recent years have damaged thousands of trees in Sudan.

An RSF source said allegations about RSF attacks on electricity infrastructure were incorrect and army propaganda.

The US envoy presented a draft resolution to the UN Security Council to extend the 2005 weapons embargo on Darfur across the entire country and include a ban on attack drones.

More than two million people who fled Khartoum have returned to the city since fighting there ended in March 2025, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Sudan said it was surprised by the allegations against its army before any professional and independent investigation into the circumstances of the incident.

The Sudanese army has previously accused Chad of being aligned with the RSF.

Chad's army said the previous strikes took place more than 100km inside its territory in the eastern Ennedi region with no Chadian casualties.

Families displaced by war in Sudan's El Obeid refugee camps face crippling water shortages.

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been targeting the water sources in El Obeid.