How Sudan became a killing zone

In The News · Nov 13, 2025 · 20m

Few conflicts have caused as much horror and devastation to people’s lives as Sudan’s civil war. And yet, the country’s ongoing death and destruction remains largely unnoticed, and often ignored, by the rest of the world.

An estimated 150,000 people have been killed, and 14 million people displaced, since the country was plunged into civil war in April 2023 after a power struggle broke out between the country’s army and a powerful paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Last month, the RSF captured the city of El Fasher, the last major urban centre in Darfur held by the army…