December 30, 2025
Displaced Sudanese families shelter at the newly established Al-Afadh camp in Al Dabbah after fleeing Al-Fashir and other conflict zones in North Darfur following the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) takeover of the city, on November 6, 2025. [Stringer – Anadolu Agency]
The war in Sudan, which began on 15 April 2023, has displaced almost 13 million people, including more than four million who have fled to neighbouring countries, according to the United Nations.
The UN has described the situation in Sudan as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, citing severe deterioration in conditions across displacement camps in Tawila in North Darfur and Al-Afad camp in northern Sudan, as well as in the cities of El Obeid in North Kordofan, Kosti in White Nile State and Damazin in Blue Nile State.
UN estimates indicate that more than eight million Sudanese have been forced from their homes by the fighting. Separately, Sudan’s National Council for Child Welfare said the conflict has disrupted the education of nearly 12 million children across the country.
Meanwhile, the Sudanese Doctors Network accused the Rapid Support Forces on Saturday of killing more than 200 people on an ethnic basis in the areas of Amro, Sirba and Abu Qumra, days after the group announced it had taken control of those locations. The RSF has not commented on the allegations.
The Joint Force of Armed Movements in Darfur said last Thursday that it had repelled an RSF attack on several northern areas of North Darfur State.
Beyond Darfur, intense fighting has also continued for weeks across the three Kordofan states — North, West and South — between the Sudanese army and the RSF, triggering the recent displacement of tens of thousands more civilians.
Of Sudan’s 18 states, the RSF currently controls the five states of Darfur in the west, with the exception of parts of North Darfur that remain under army control. The Sudanese army retains influence over most of the remaining 13 states, including the capital, Khartoum.
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