The UN and the crisis in Sudan (Jan-Jun 2025)

8.9 million
people internally displaced (UNHCR, May 2026)
150,000+
reportedly killed
33.7 million
people in need of assistance (OCHA, May 2026)

What is the crisis about?

On 15 April 15, 2023, the fighting erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The armed conflict is affecting millions of lives in Sudan and causing mass displacement, food insecurity and education challenges that require immediate humanitarian help.

Right now, Sudan is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe with over 25 million people in desperate need of assistance.

More information on the background to the conflict.

Recent Statements and News

30 June

Funding shortages threaten relief for millions of Sudanese refugees: WFP

© WFP/Aurore Vinot Refugees from Sudan register at a centre in Birao in the Central African Republic.
© WFP/Aurore Vinot Refugees from Sudan register at a centre in Birao in the Central African Republic.

Critical shortfalls in global humanitarian funding now threaten millions of Sudanese refugees fleeing war to seek refuge in neighbouring countries, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday. (UN News)

  • Sudan: FAO scales up emergency response with seed distribution campaign targeting 7.5 million people (FAO)
  • Refugees escaping Sudan face escalating hunger and malnutrition as food aid risks major reductions (WFP)

27 June

  • ASG Pobee briefs Security Council on escalating crisis in Sudan (DPPA)
  • Sudan: ‘Fighting shows no signs of abating,’ senior UN official tells Security Council (UN News)

25 June

  • As the world looks away, women suffer in silence (OCHA)

23 June

  • Bearing the brunt of war: UNICEF chief meets some of Sudan’s 700,000 child refugees crossing into Chad (UNICEF)

20 June

For too long, ‘unbound horrors’ have unfolded in Sudan

© UNICEF/Mohammed Jamal Over 700,000 people have been displaced by violence in Darfur, Sudan.
© UNICEF/Mohammed Jamal Over 700,000 people have been displaced by violence in Darfur, Sudan.

Hostilities continue to escalate across Sudan’s North Darfur and Kordofan regions, with reports of civilian casualties, sexual violence, abductions and looting, the UN human rights chief warned on Friday, describing the consequences as disastrous. (UN News)

  • Sudan: Türk warns of catastrophic surge in violence (OHCHR)

19 June

  • Statement by the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan a.i., Kristine Hambrouck on the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict (RC/HC)
  • Statement by Radhouane Nouicer, the designated Expert on Sudan of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict (OHCHR)
  • “As widespread as guns and bullets”: Sexual violence used to terrorize Sudan’s women and girls (UNFPA)

17 June

  • Sudan war intensifying with devastating consequences for civilians, UN Fact-Finding Mission says (Sudan FFM)

16 June

  • Sudanese refugee crisis in Chad : How war affects neighbouring countries (UNV)

12 June

  • A call to action for protection and accountability for the people of Sudan – Statement by Tom Fletcher, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, 12 June 2025 (OCHA)
  • An oral cholera vaccination campaign aims to reach more than 2.6 million people in Sudan’s Khartoum State (WHO)

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