Sudan is entering its fourth year of war, a conflict described by the United Nations as an “abandoned crisis.” The fighting between the army and a rival paramilitary group continues to drive mass displacement, hunger, and allegations of atrocities across the country.
Three years into the war, 11 million people have been displaced and tens of thousands killed, leaving the conflict deadlocked with civilians trapped in a cycle of violence. Two-thirds of the population are now in urgent need of humanitarian aid, with four million acutely malnourished and nearly 12 million having fled their homes.
Despite fragile signs of life returning to parts of the capital, the war has devastated civilian infrastructure and pushed millions into misery. The UN chief has called for an end to the “nightmare” war, but Khartoum has rejected an international conference, deeming it a “colonial tutelage approach.”