Sudan

09 December 2025

Drone strikes on 4 December 2025 hit multiple sites across South and North Kordofan, including a kindergarten in Kalogi, killing 96 people, including 43 children. Additional strikes hit a hospital treating the wounded and a food convoy, causing further casualties. Needs include trauma care, protection, and safe shelter. (PI 08/12/2025, AJ 07/12/2025)

04 November 2025

Famine (IPC Phase 5) is expected to persist in Al Fasher in North Darfur and Kadugli in South Kordofan from October 2025 to January 2026, according to the latest IPC analysis. Both areas have faced months of restricted humanitarian access, disrupted trade routes, and widespread market collapse. In Al Fasher, violence and repeated drone strikes trap hundreds of thousands of civilians, while in Kadugli, prolonged isolation has depleted food stocks and cut off supply lines. Nationally, 21.2 million people face Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse food insecurity, including more than 375,000 in Catastrophe (IPC Phase 5). The analysis highlights extensive livelihood disruption, high food prices, and limited humanitarian reach as key drivers. Malnutrition rates continue to rise sharply among children and pregnant or lactating women. The declaration underscores how prolonged sieges, economic deterioration, and conflict-driven displacement have eroded coping capacities, pushing entire urban populations towards starvation. (IPC 03/11/2025, AP 03/11/2025)

21 October 2025

Between 15–19 October 2025, at least 1,500 people fled Al Fasher town, North Darfur state, because of intensified fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces. Many among the displaced have moved towards Tawila town, where humanitarian conditions remain dire. The situation in and around Al Fasher remains volatile, raising concerns of worsening displacement and aid access. (IOM 20/10/2025, AA 20/10/2025)

14 October 2025

On 10 September 2025, shelling and drone strikes from the Rapid Support Forces killed at least 57 people, including 22 women and 17 children, and injured 21 others in Dar Al Arqam displacement centre in Al Fasher, North Darfur. The attack follows repeated strikes on civilian sites amid the current siege of the city, heightening protection risks. (PI 13/10/2025, UNICEF 12/10/2025, AJ 11/10/2025)

23 September 2025

On 19 September 2025, a drone strike on Al Safiya Mosque in Al Fasher, North Darfur, killed more than 70 civilians, including at least 11 children. The attack, attributed to the Rapid Support Forces, is among the deadliest since the city came under siege, further endangering civilians already facing famine, cholera, and restricted humanitarian access. (UN 19/09/2025, UNICEF 21/09/2025, BBC 19/09/2025)

16 September 2025

Heavy rains and floods on 12 September 2025 displaced about 4,300 people in Major 6 village, Um Algura locality, Al Jazirah. The impact includes the destruction of around 550 houses, with displaced families sheltering in open areas. The situation has compounded needs across the country, where communities already face conflict, displacement, and heightened disease risks. (IOM 14/09/2025)

16 September 2025

Sudan faces one of the world’s most severe education crises, with nearly 13 million of 17 million school-age children currently out of school given conflict and displacement since April 2023, which are also preventing around seven million enrolled children from attending. The other six million not enrolled at all risk permanent exclusion from education. As the new academic year began in September 2025, only 45% of schools had reopened. Among those remaining closed, 10% are sheltering displaced families. Teacher shortages, lack of materials, and restricted access continue to block learning opportunities. Flooding expected through October threatens to worsen the situation by destroying infrastructure and forcing further displacement. The prolonged lack of educational access places children at heightened risk of exploitation, early marriage, and armed group recruitment and perpetuates poverty cycles, posing critical long-term humanitarian challenges. (STC 11/09/2025, Jordan Times 11/09/2025, Al Arabiya 11/09/2025)