Reuters published on 14 August 2026 an article titled "650,000 Refugees in South Sudan Could Lose Food Aid Within Weeks Due to Funding Squeeze, Say UN Agencies" by Olivia Le Poidevin.
Staff with the World Food Program and UN High Commission for Refugees report that 650,000 refugees in South Sudan, most of them from conflict in neighboring Sudan, may no longer receive food assistance due to a shortage of international funding.
UN News published on 10 April 2026 an update titled "Sudan: 14 Million Displaced; Hunger and Attacks on Health Continue as War Enters Fourth Year."
Some 14 million people, or a quarter of the population, have been forced to flee, with 9 million remaining displaced inside Sudan and 4.4 million as refugees mostly in Chad, South Sudan, and Egypt. In addition, 21 million Sudanese now face acute food insecurity, including 6.3 million in the direst state of food emergency. Over 40 percent of Sudan's population require urgent health assistance and disease outbreaks are widespread.
Most of the UN agencies have their main logistics hub in the United Arab Emirates. The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is impacting their ability to respond as humanitarian supply routes have been cut and shipping aid has become slower and more costly.
The Sentry published in June 2025 a report titled "Power and Plunder: The Eritrean Defense Forces Intervention in Tigray."
The war in Ethiopia's Tigray Region resulted in a humanitarian crisis of immense proportions. War crimes were perpetrated by all parties to the conflict, but the nature of atrocities and war profiteering carried out by the Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) was unmatched in scale and premeditation. The EDF engaged in massacres, widespread sexual violence, and systematic looting, including of Tigrayan factory machinery, medical supplies and equipment, and cultural antiquities.
The New York Times published on 26 July 2024 an article titled "As Starvation Spreads in Sudan, Military Blocks Aid Trucks at Border" by Declan Walsh and Ivor Prickett.
In an effort to prevent arms from reaching its rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from across the Chad border, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) has instructed the United Nations not to send humanitarian relief trucks through check points controlled by the RSF. They must make a 200-mile detour to a border crossing controlled by a local militia allied with the SAF, significantly complicating the distribution of humanitarian aid.
The Washington Post published on 19 June 2024 an article titled "Futures on Hold, Dreams of Escape" by Malin Fezehai and Rael Ombuor.
In 1991, UNHCR established a refugee camp at Dadaab in neighboring Kenya for Somalis fleeing the conflict between government forces and the al-Shabaab terrorist organization. Today, Dadaab is still 97 percent Somali and houses 380,000 people. The refugees once dreamed of returning to a peaceful Somalia; now they dream of being resettled in North America or Australia by UNHCR. One of the few tickets out of Dadaab is superior performance in high school and admission to a university
Aljazeera published on 18 June 2024 an article titled "Starving to Death Is as Scary as the War for Sudanese Refugees" by Mat Nashed.
Three quarters of a million Sudanese refugees are facing "catastrophic levels of hunger" and more than 25 million, including many internally displaced, are facing acute food shortages. The other option is to remain in a war zone. These people have a Hobson's choice.
Refugees International published on 1 February 2024 a detailed report titled "Bearing Witness: Atrocities and Looming Hunger in Darfur" by Daniel P. Sullivan.
Sudan now has the largest number (more than 10 million) of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the world. Refugees from Darfur in Chad are overwhelming the humanitarian response. In December 2023, the United States made an official atrocity designation for Sudan.
The Washington Post published on 30 November 2023 an article titled "Sudan's Warring Sides Forcibly Recruit Civilians, Even Refugees Who Return" by Katharine Houreld.
Some 50,000 Sudanese have fled to Ethiopia as refugees since the beginning of the civil war. Some of the males have been forced from refugee camps to fight in Sudan. Others found the conditions in refugee camps so bad that they returned to Sudan on their own and were then forced to join the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces or Sudanese military.
The Associated Press published on 27 November 2023 an article titled "A Watchdog Urges UN Security Council to Consider All Options to Protect Sudan's Darfur Civilians" by Samy Magdy.
Human Rights Watch has called on the UN Security Council to take all necessary steps to end the human rights' atrocities in Darfur by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and Arab militias.
The Guardian published on 21 November 2023 an article titled "Sudan's Cycle of Violence: 'There Is a Genocide Going on in West Darfur'" by Kaamil Ahmed and Zeinab Mohammed Salih.
As the war between Gaza and Israel consumes the world's press attention, the ongoing conflict in Sudan is generally being ignored. The situation in Darfur in western Sudan may well constitute genocide.
Time published on 15 November 2023 an article titled "How to Help People in Sudan Amid Warnings of 'Another Genocide'" by Mallory Moench.
The article identifies reputable organizations that are playing an important role in efforts to counter the effects of ongoing atrocities in Sudan and Darfur.
Politico published on 11 November 2023 an article titled "UN Sounds Alarm on Darfur, Warns World Not to Repeat History" by Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing.
The UN Refugee Agency is "gravely concerned" about ethnic cleansing underway in Sudan's Darfur region by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and fears there could be a repeat of the genocide that occurred early this century.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) published on 7 September 2023 a detailed account titled "Sudan Situation Report."
The report documents the humanitarian requirements for Sudan as a result of the ongoing conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and steps taken by the international community to meet those needs. For the first time since the conflict began in mid-April, humanitarian convoys reached North Darfur and South Darfur.
UNOCHA noted that it has received in 2023 $676 million in funding for Sudan. The United States has provided $380 million of the amount or well over half.
The New York Times published on 7 September 2023 an article titled "'They Blew Our Lives Up': South Sudanese Flee War in Sudan" by Abdi Latif Dahir.
Some 250,000 people have fled the fighting in Sudan to take refuge in South Sudan, which is poorly equipped to care for them. Most of these refugees had earlier fled civil war in South Sudan to seek refuge in Sudan.
Refugees International published on 24 July 2023 a paper titled "Sudan in Crisis: Improving the Response for Sudanese Refugees in Egypt" by Abdullahi Boru Halakhe.
About 120,000 Sudanese are stuck between conflict in Sudan and a hostile environment in Egypt at or near the Sudanese/Egyptian border town of Wadi Halfa in unsanitary conditions where they cannot meet their basic needs for weeks. Relaxation of entry and expediting the refugee determination process, combined with livelihood and labor access by Egyptian authorities and UNHCR, would reduce the humanitarian suffering at the border and inside Egypt.
Just Security published on 8 June 2023 a commentary titled "The Sudan Conflict Is an Existential Crisis for Refugee Protection in Africa" by Chidi Odinkalu, Tufts University.
At the outbreak on 15 April 2023 of Sudan's war between the Sudan Armed Forces and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the country hosted 1.13 million refugees--the second largest population in Africa--from South Sudan, Eritrea, and Ethiopia. The fighting in Sudan has now produced 385,000 refugees in neighboring countries and more than 1.2 million internally displaced persons. Refugees from Sudan could reach 1 million soon.
The Africa Center for Strategic Studies published on 31 May 2023 a fact sheet titled "Sudan Conflict Straining Fragility of Its Neighbors."
The conflict in Sudan has resulted in the displacement of 485,000 Sudanese to neighboring Egypt, Libya, Chad, Central African Republic, South Sudan, and Ethiopia. Fleeing Sudanese have only avoided Eritrea. Another 1.2 million Sudanese have been internally displaced.
National Public Radio published on 30 May 2023 an article titled "People Fleeing Sudan Face Uncertain Futures in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Beyond" by Aya Batrawy.
Based on interviews in Sudan, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, this article looks at the challenges facing thousands of Sudanese fleeing the country for Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
The New York Times published on 16 May 2023 an article titled "Fleeing Generals at War and Violent Militias, Many Say 'We're Not Coming Back'" by Elian Peltier.
The conflict in Sudan is giving rise to growing numbers of refugees from Darfur region to Chad, a poor country that is ill prepared to handle Sudanese refugees.
Reuters published on 5 May 2023 an article titled "Fighting Rages in Khartoum, Civilians Complain of Being Forgotten" by Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir.
The ongoing fighting between the Sudan Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has turned Khartoum into a humanitarian disaster as any semblance of law and order and respect for humanity seems to have ended.
