Sudan is entering a fourth year of war marked by famine and massacres, in what the United Nations calls an “abandoned crisis.” The conflict between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has displaced 13 million people. At least 59,000 people have died.
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Students prepare to enter Sudanese secondary school certificate exams under the control of the Sudanese Armed Forces , in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, April 13, 2026. Students prepare to enter Sudanese secondary school certificate exams under the control of the Sudanese Armed Forces , in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, April 13, 2026. Students attend Sudanese secondary school certificate exams under the control of the Sudanese Armed Forces , in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, April 13, 2026. Students prepare to enter Sudanese secondary school certificate exams under the control of the Sudanese Armed Forces , in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, April 13, 2026. Students prepare to enter Sudanese secondary school certificate exams under the control of the Sudanese Armed Forces , in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, April 13, 2026. Students prepare to enter Sudanese secondary school certificate exams under the control of the Sudanese Armed Forces , in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, April 13, 2026. Students prepare to enter Sudanese secondary school certificate exams under the control of the Sudanese Armed Forces , in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, April 13, 2026. Students attend Sudanese secondary school certificate exams under the control of the Sudanese Armed Forces , in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, April 13, 2026. Students attend Sudanese secondary school certificate exams under the control of the Sudanese Armed Forces , in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, April 13, 2026.
on Wednesday enters a fourth year of war that’s being called an “abandoned crisis,” as a new conflict in the Middle East throws into shadow the fighting that has forced 13 million people to flee their homes. Sudan has been described as the world’s largest humanitarian challenge, notably in terms of displacement and hunger. There is no end in sight to the fighting between the military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that witnesses and aid groups say has laid waste to parts of the vast Darfur region. Growing evidence shows regional powers like the United Arab Emirates backing combatants behind the scenes. Attempts by the United States and regional powers, now distracted by the Iran war, have failed to establish a ceasefire. “This grim and chastening anniversary marks another year when the world has failed to meet the test of Sudan,” United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher said.
At least 59,000 people have been killed. At least 6,000 died over three days as the RSF rampaged through the Darfur outpost of el-Fasher in October, according to the U.N., with U.N.-backed experts concluding the offensive bore “the The war has pushed parts of Sudan into famine. The number of people with severe acute malnutrition, the most dangerous and deadly kind, is expected to increase to 800,000, the world’s foremost experts on food security, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, said in February. About 34 million people, or almost two of every three Sudanese, need assistance, the U.N. says. Only 63% of health facilities remain fully or partially functional amid disease outbreaks including cholera, according to the World Health Organization. And now fuel prices in Sudan have increased by over 24% because of the Iran war and its effects on shipping, driving up food prices. “A plea from me: Please don’t call this the forgotten crisis. I’m referring to this as an abandoned crisis,” the top U.N. official in Sudan, Denise Brown, said Monday, criticizing the international community for failing to focus on ending the fighting.
The war exploded from a power struggle that emerged following Sudan’s transition to democracy after an uprising forced the military ouster of longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir in April 2019. The tensions sparked between military chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, who chairs the ruling sovereign council, and RSF commander Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, who was Burhan’s deputy there. Sudan is now essentially divided between a military-backed, internationally recognized government in the capital, Khartoum, and a rival RSF-controlled administration in Darfur. Neither side can achieve a decisive victory, said Shamel Elnoor, a Sudanese journalist and researcher, adding that Sudanese “have become powerless and are subjected to foreign dictates.” The military has established control over the north, east and central regions, including Sudan’s Red Sea ports and its oil refineries and pipelines. The RSF and allies control Darfur and areas in the Kordofan region along the border with South Sudan. Both regions include many of Sudan’s oil fields and gold mines. While Egypt supports Sudan’s military, the UAE is accused by U.N. experts and rights groups of providing arms to the RSF. The UAE has rejected the accusation. The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab, which tracks the war through satellite imagery, said this month that the RSF had received military support from a base in Ethiopia. The RSF didn’t comment on the allegation. Josef Tucker, senior analyst for the Horn of Africa at the International Crisis Group, told The Associated Press that the war could spill over Sudan’s borders, making the conflict “even more intractable.”
Three years of fighting have seen widespread atrocities including mass killings and rampant sexual violence including gang rapes. Hospitals, ambulances and medical workers in Sudan have been attacked, with over 2,000 people killed, the WHO has said. The International Criminal Court has said it was investigating potential war crimes and crimes against humanity, particularly in Darfur, a region that two decades ago became synonymous with genocide and war crimes. Most of the latest atrocities have been blamed on the RSF and their Janjaweed allies, Arab militias that were notorious for atrocities in the early 2000s against people identifying as East or Central African in Darfur. The RSF grew out of the Janjaweed. “We have … no reason at all to believe it will stop the mass atrocities that we saw in el-Fasher,” Brown, the UN official, said. The military’s seizure of Khartoum and other urban areas in central Sudan in early 2025 did allow the return of about 4 million people to their homes, the U.N. migration agency said in March. But they struggle with damaged infrastructure and other challenges. “It’s not really a return to normal. It is trying to survive amidst a new normal,” said Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, CEO of aid group Mercy Corps.
Magdy is a Middle East reporter for The Associated Press, based in Cairo. He focuses on conflict, migration and human rights abuses.
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