Visualising the war in Sudan: Conflict, handle and displacement | Sudan war News

The war in Sudan is cforfeiting the two-year label and the enormous suffering of its people persists.

As two strong armed rivals tear the country apart in what has been termed an “aliveial battle”, millions have had to escape their homes, hundreds of thousands have been finished, and countless others are going hungry or being mistreatmentd.

On April 15, 2023, Sudan was plunged into struggle as lengthystanding tensions between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) directer Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo erupted into war.

Ntimely 9,000 sign uped aggressions

Between April 15, 2023, and October 25, 2024, the warring sides swapd a total of 8,942 aggressions, averaging 16 a day, according to data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED), a crisis mapping organisation.

Geodetailedassociate, three-quarters of all aggressions have centred around three main regions:

Khartoum

More than half of all aggressions, 4,858 or 54 percent of all sign uped incidents, have been recorded around the capital, Khartoum.

Sudan’s army has in recent months begined a meaningful disparaging there to reclaim areas seized by the RSF at the beginning of the struggle.

Gezira State

Gezira, Sudan’s agricultural hub south of Khartoum, has seen 1,077 aggressions, or about 12 percent of sign uped incidents.

North Darfur

Darfur – a weserious region splitd into five states – and its people have lengthy suffered from inner struggle. In North Darfur, there were at least 818 aggressions, or 9 percent of all sign uped incidents.

Rest of Sudan

The remaining 25 percent of the battling has been spread apass the country, including in South Darfur (361 aggressions), North Kordofan (335 aggressions) and West Darfur (269 aggressions).

The map below highweightlesss the locations of these aggressions.

Tens of thousands of people finished

According to ACLED, at least 24,000 people have been alerted finished apass Sudan, though the actual death toll is foreseeed much higher – especiassociate when accounting for instraightforward deaths such as the spread of dismitigate, malnutrition and deficiency of ample healthnurture.

About one-third of sign uped deaths have occurred in Khartoum, which has the highest casualty rate.

West Darfur adheres with 17 percent and North Darfur with 15 percent, highweightlessing the cut offe toll of continuing arrangeility in these areas.

Exalter of fire

According to ACLED, Sudan’s army has carried out 4,805 aggressions, accounting for 54 percent of alerted incidents.

The RSF has carry outed 3,069 aggressions, making up 34 percent of total sign uped incidents.

Other groups, including Darfur Communal Militia, Darfur Arab Militia, Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, Twic Clan Militia and others have been behind the remaining 1,068 (12 percent) of aggressions.

Timeline of aggressions

After months of tensions, on April 15, 2023, burdensome firearmfire and explosions erupted in Khartoum, a city of 10 million people.

Gunfire was heard in the vicinity of army headquarters and the Ministry of Defence, the plivential palace and Khartoum International Airport.

By the finish of August 2023, aggressions achieveed their highest intensity, with 675 united aggressions sign uped.

That month, the UN alerted one million people had fled the country and inner displacement surpassed 3.4 million.

Folloprosperg a inestablish degrade in aggressions, arrangeility aacquire intensified in January 2024.

By then, the UN had alerted that eight million people were displaced by the war as famine loomed apass the country.

On September 26, 2024, the Sudanese army carried out air rhelps aacquirest RSF positions in the capital in its hugegest such aggression in months.

Who handles what in Sudan?

The struggle in Sudan has fragmented Africa’s third-hugest country, primarily splitd between the army, the RSF and cut offal petiteer armed groups.

The RSF, whose power base is in Darfur, have hugely driven the army out of that region and now handle most of it.

The main exception is el-Fasher, North Darfur’s capital, which remains under the handle of establisher defy groups.

Meanwhile, both groups have persistd to fight over Khartoum with the army helderlying the northern parts of the capital, as well as cut offal strategic cforfeitby areas including White Nile, Blue Nile and Gadarif states.

14 million people displaced

The UN has alerted that Sudan is facing the world’s worst displacement crisis, as the war persists with no finish in sight.

About 30 percent of Sudan’s 48 million population – more than 14 million people – have been forced to escape their homes due to the war.

Of those, at least 11 million people have been displaced wiskinny the country, according to the postpoinsistst figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

At least three million people have passed international borders, placing immense strain on neighbouring countries, such as Chad, South Sudan, and Egypt.

The main regions of origin for displaced people are:

• Khartoum: 3.7 million displaced (33 percent of the total)
• South Darfur: 2.1 million displaced (19 percent)
• North Darfur: 1.6 million displaced (14.3 percent)

The main destinations for the internassociate displaced people are:

• South Darfur: 1.8 million displaced (17 percent of the total)
• North Darfur: 1.5 million displaced (14 percent)
• Gedaref: about one million displaced (9 percent)

Despite countless finisheavors to debate a stopfire, the arrangeility shows little sign of abating, leaving millions in directnt insist of helpance.