A file photo of Sudanese refugees inside Sudan in April 2025. Photo : AFP
In a statement, the Observatory said Sudan’s Kordofan region has witnessed large-scale displacement waves, with more than 1,000 people fleeing the towns of Kadugli, Dilling, and Al-Kuwayk since the start of the week.
The city of Kosti alone has received around 1,600 displaced people, most of them women and children.
The statement added that approximately 2,500 people have arrived in the town of Al-Faw in Gedaref governorate, while the town of Al-Dabba in Sudan’s Northern State is hosting more than 15,000 displaced people from Kordofan and Darfur.
Many are currently sheltering in Al-Afaf camp amid a severe shortage of funding allocated to food security and humanitarian assistance.
According to the Observatory, violations have escalated sharply in the Kordofan region, with the United Nations documenting the killing of at least 104 civilians in drone strikes since 4 December.
The attacks reportedly targeted vital facilities, including hospitals and kindergartens.
The Observatory also highlighted the forced detention of more than 70 healthcare workers and around 5,000 civilians in the city of Nyala, as well as the flight of over 3,000 people from Kordofan to the Yida area in South Sudan to escape the fighting.
Citing estimates by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Observatory said the scale of the crisis includes millions of internally displaced persons across Sudan’s 18 states, alongside more than three million returnees, more than half of whom are children.
The statement concluded that the figures reflect a dire living reality, with one-third of displaced households and one-fifth of returnee families reporting that they went an entire day and night without food during the past month, amid extremely limited access to healthcare and sanitation services.
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