Published On 4/29/2026
A Sudanese medical network issued a warning of a humanitarian catastrophe threatening more than 100,000 displaced people in the Blue Nile region, southeast of the country, as the fall season approaches.
The Sudan Doctors Network expressed in a statement its deep concern about the deteriorating humanitarian conditions of the displaced in the city of Damazin, which includes about 10 displacement centers, housing more than 100,000 displaced people.
Children constitute 40% of the displaced, while women and the elderly represent 60% of the total fleeing the hell of conflict in Kurmuk and Qaisan Governorates, amid extremely harsh humanitarian conditions.
The network confirmed the worsening of the crisis after the Rapid Support Forces invaded the city of Kurmuk and a number of neighboring areas, which led to massive waves of mass displacement, as a result of which thousands of civilians turned into displaced persons facing tragic conditions.
She explained that the displaced are facing the spread of epidemics, a severe shortage of food and water, and a major deterioration in health services inside the shelter centers.
The network warned that the approaching fall season portends an imminent humanitarian catastrophe, with increasing possibilities for the spread of epidemic diseases as a result of poor health infrastructure and the absence of urgent interventions to improve the living and health conditions of the displaced.
International organizations and humanitarian agencies called for immediate intervention to provide food, medicine, clean water, enhance health care services, and work to protect civilians, especially the most vulnerable groups, from the repercussions of this worsening humanitarian crisis.
On Saturday, the Rapid Support Forces announced control of the strategic city of Kili in the Blue Nile Region, after launching a large military operation in the region last March.
Sudan has been witnessing a war since mid-April 2023, between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, in a conflict that the United Nations described as the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, causing the displacement of about 12 million people.
