Sudan civil war

The International Organization for Migration said an estimated 1,150 more people were displaced from the villages of Muzbat, Oreri, Tari and Umm Haraz in Um Baru locality, North Darfur, between 29 and 31 October. Some moved within the locality and others crossed into Chad, it said.

The International Organization for Migration said 119,782 people (23,598 families) were displaced across Sudan's Blue Nile state between 11 January and 15 October 2026, 21% more than at its 23 August update.

The UN fact-finding mission on Sudan said at a New York news conference that it found reasonable grounds to believe outside transfers of weapons, military technology and foreign personnel sustain the war. Chair Mohamed Chande Othman named individuals and entities in Chad, Puntland in Somalia, southeast Libya and the United Arab Emirates. Chad denies using its territory.

Drone strikes hit a power station, a fuel tanker in an oil depot and a gas station in Managil, Gezira state, on Wednesday, putting the station out of service and cutting electricity to the city, local sources told Anadolu. Anadolu described it as the third consecutive day of drone strikes on electricity infrastructure in army-controlled states.

Médecins Sans Frontières said Nyala Teaching Hospital received 36 bodies and treated more than 150 injured after a drone strike by the Sudanese Armed Forces on Dumaya market on Monday evening. The health ministry of the Tasees government put the toll at 188 killed and 356 injured on Tuesday, Dabanga reported. The discrepancy remains unresolved.

A drone struck the Al-Markhiyat power substation in northwestern Omdurman early on Tuesday, cutting electricity to large parts of Khartoum, witnesses told Anadolu. As of 0630 GMT there was no official statement on the damage or on who was responsible.

A drone strike on a market in the north of Nyala, in Darfur, at about 8pm on Monday killed at least 21 people and injured 40, AFP reported, citing a medical source and witnesses. Nyala serves as the de facto capital of the Rapid Support Forces.

Sudan Electricity Holding Company said drone attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on Monday hit five power substations, in Singa, Al-Hawata, Al-Faw, Mashkur and Al-Junaid, and cut electricity from the southeastern grid across Sennar, Gedaref, White Nile and Gezira states.

The United Kingdom imposed travel bans and asset freezes on 15 senior commanders of the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces over suspected atrocities, including conflict-related sexual violence, and announced £15 million in aid. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said the perpetrators must be held accountable.

UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Friday that drone strikes attributed to both the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces killed at least 306 people and injured hundreds more in the first three weeks of October, in Kordofan, Darfur, Blue Nile, Khartoum and other states, according to the UN human rights office.

In a statement on Friday, the Security Council condemned the 19 October drone attack on Amiet Market in Abyei 'in the strongest terms', said attacks on civilians could amount to war crimes, and called for a full, transparent and prompt investigation. UN News said the attack killed more than 80 people and UNISFA is still verifying casualties.

The army's Fourth Infantry Division announced that it had recaptured Bakori and Akleli in Blue Nile, saying it drove out the RSF and the SPLM-N. The RSF announced its capture of Bakori on 28 August. Radio Tamazuj reported that the Tasis Alliance had not commented on the army's announcement.

The Sudan Founding Alliance, which is allied with the RSF, said on Tuesday that it took full control of the Al-Birka area and a military camp in Blue Nile. The army's Fourth Infantry Division said it had dealt a decisive blow to RSF forces there. Radio Tamazuj reported conflicting claims over the outcome.

A drone strike on El Odaiya, West Kordofan, on Tuesday evening killed 16 civilians, including two women, according to the Sudan Founding Alliance, an RSF ally, which blamed the Sudanese Armed Forces. Radio Dabanga said it had approached the army for comment.

A drone attack on Amiet Market in the disputed Abyei region killed at least 153 people, according to Abyei's caretaker information minister, who blamed Sudan's military. A senior Sudanese officer told the Associated Press, anonymously, that the army struck fuel tankers bound for the RSF and that those killed were RSF members and fuel smugglers. South Sudan summoned Sudan's ambassador.

A drone attack hit Nyala, capital of South Darfur and an RSF stronghold, early on Monday, killing 17 people, including seven RSF officers, and wounding 23, medical and RSF sources said, according to Al Jazeera.

A drone strike on Ed Daein, capital of East Darfur, killed 19 civilians and injured 21, the Sudan Founding Alliance said, attributing it to the Sudanese army and saying a restaurant was hit. Sources close to the army said the strike targeted Ed Daein prison and military facilities.

A drone strike near Khartoum airport on Monday killed four people, including three children, AFP reported, quoting a medical source. A military source told AFP that air defences in the capital had downed several other drones launched by the RSF towards the airport.

Drone strikes in two areas of West Kordofan on Sunday evening killed 150 people, sources told the Sudan War Observatory, which said a truck carrying around 200 mourners was hit as it arrived in Al-Dabab and a market in Al-Mujlad was bombed. The army has not responded to the allegation that it carried them out.

An attack on a displacement camp in the Hajar Sanakit area of Sirba locality, West Darfur, killed at least 11 people and injured five on Saturday, Babiker Hamdeen, health minister of the Darfur Regional Government, said, accusing the RSF. Most casualties were women and children. The RSF did not immediately comment.

A drone strike on a livestock market in Nyala, capital of South Darfur, killed 30 people and wounded 47, a medical source said. The RSF, which controls the city, blamed the Sudanese army. The army said it had struck RSF command centres and positions in Nyala and did not address civilian casualties.

The United States told the United Nations Security Council that it wants a humanitarian truce in Sudan and an expanded arms embargo and sanctions. U.S. Ambassador Jeff Bartos said a truce should be paired with an inclusive political process leading to civilian-led governance.

The Sudanese army captured the Bir Kelekel area, in the eastern part of Jebel Moon district in West Darfur, after clashes with the RSF, the state's governor, Bahr al-Din Adam Karama, said on Wednesday. The RSF could not immediately be reached for comment.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) said in an alert on Monday that the risk of famine was growing in parts of Greater Darfur and Greater Kordofan. In Greater Darfur, 13 of 17 nutrition surveys since January recorded critical levels of acute malnutrition, it said.

Army chief Abdelfattah El Burhan ordered a fact-finding committee, including representatives of the Public Prosecution, to investigate the deaths of Sudanese miners near the Egyptian border, the Sovereignty Council said. The Sudan Doctors Network reported 13 deaths and Emergency Lawyers at least 72.

Artillery shelling of Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan, killed a mother and her three children, the Sudan Doctors Network said, attributing it to the SPLM-N led by Abdul-Aziz al-Hilu, an RSF ally. SPLM-N officials in the state could not immediately be reached.

At least 72 artisanal miners were killed in an airstrike in northern Sudan, the rights monitor Emergency Lawyers said, blaming the Egyptian air force; Reuters could not verify the claim, and the Egyptian military did not comment.

A drone strike on a displacement camp in the Abu Shandi area of Wad Al-Mahi locality, Blue Nile, killed at least 31 civilians, four of them children, and injured 19, the Sudan Doctors Network said, holding the RSF responsible. The RSF did not immediately comment.

The UN Security Council unanimously renewed its Sudan sanctions regime, targeted sanctions and an arms embargo, for two months until 11 December. A US effort to extend the embargo to the whole of Sudan and all parties to the war failed to win consensus, according to news reports cited by UN News.

Drone strikes on Ed Damazin, capital of Blue Nile state, killed four women in the El Hijra neighbourhood and hit a mosque, a technical college and the home of the state finance minister, Radio Dabanga reported. The Blue Nile Civil Society Initiative blamed the RSF and its allies.

Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ruled out negotiations with the RSF, saying during a visit to Merowe locality in Northern State that the armed forces would pursue 'the option of military victory' until all national territory was cleared of the rebellion.

The Dar Hamar Emergency Committee, a local relief group, said on 6 October that RSF forces had attacked Abu Ajal village in the south-eastern countryside of En Nahud, West Kordofan, killing more than 10 civilians and injuring a large number of residents.

The International Organization for Migration said 1,770 more people (354 households) were displaced from villages in Wad al-Mahi locality, Blue Nile, on 5 October, moving to Al-Roseires locality, bringing the number displaced from the locality's villages over three days to 5,525.

The UN Human Rights Council voted 28 to 10, with nine abstentions, to extend its Sudan fact-finding mission by a year, condemned indiscriminate drone strikes and attacks on civilians, and called for an immediate and complete ceasefire without preconditions. Sudan had urged states to vote against the resolution.

A drone strike on a passenger vehicle in El Geneina, West Darfur, early on 4 October killed more than 10 civilians and wounded at least 17, the head of the state's civil administration, aligned with the RSF-backed Tasis alliance, told Radio Tamazuj, blaming the army, which could not be reached.

Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan joined the leaders of Egypt, Eritrea and Somalia in a declaration at New Alamein, Egypt, that backed Sudan's military-led government and called for a political process led by Sudanese parties.

The Sudan Doctors Network said on 3 October that RSF fighters had killed more than 25 civilians in the Umm Badr area of North Kordofan, citing a video it said showed RSF members executing civilians accused of siding with the army; the RSF did not immediately comment.

The International Organization for Migration said its field teams estimated that 2,800 people (560 households) had been displaced from 10 villages in Wad al-Mahi locality, Blue Nile, on 3 October amid deteriorating security, moving to Al-Roseires locality.

An aerial attack hit two WFP-contracted trucks carrying food from Dilling to Kadugli in South Kordofan, killing one driver; WFP called for an impartial investigation.

The RSF-aligned Tasees Alliance said it had taken areas of Roseires locality north-east of Ed Damazin in Blue Nile and captured a large number of soldiers; the army said it had repelled the attack.

RSF drone strikes on residential neighbourhoods of Dilling, South Kordofan, killed four civilians, including a child and a woman, the Sudan Doctors Network said.

The army said it had taken al-Mazroub in North Kordofan after fierce battles; an army source called it the RSF's largest stronghold in the state.

A drone hit a centre sheltering displaced families in El Obeid, killing five people and injuring 13, a North Kordofan official and a hospital source told AFP; the official blamed the RSF, which did not immediately respond.

A drone struck a University of Kordofan dormitory housing students and civilians in El Obeid, killing five people and wounding 47, according to the Emergency Lawyers group, which did not say who was responsible.

Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said the army's goal was to eliminate the RSF 'no matter how long it takes' and that he did not want a visa from any country. His government had rejected the US truce proposal, saying it would let the RSF regroup.

The United States made Burhan's visa for the UN General Assembly conditional on accepting a 90-day ceasefire proposed by its adviser Massad Boulos, diplomatic sources told Reuters.

ACLED reported that the army had seized Bara, Um Sayala and Gebrat al-Sheikh north of El Obeid, opening a supply corridor to Khartoum.

The UN Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan concluded that the RSF committed genocide in El Fasher through mass killings, gang rapes and deliberate starvation; the RSF has denied such abuses.

The latest IPC analysis found about 19.5 million people in crisis-level food insecurity or worse and no area currently in famine, but 14 areas at risk of famine, FAO, WFP and UNICEF said.

Burhan said the army had reopened the road to Kadugli, the besieged capital of South Kordofan, a week after a similar breakthrough at Dilling.