Sudan’s North Kordofan ‘deteriorating’ under RSF as thousands flee

Civilians successful Bara locality look ‘continued violations’ astatine the hands of the RSF, the Sudan Doctors Network says.

More than 4,500 radical person fled Sudan’s North Kordofan authorities arsenic the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) escalate their convulsive attacks against civilians determination and successful neighbouring North Darfur’s el-Fasher, a Sudanese aesculapian organisation says.

Field reports from the Sudan Doctors Network, which emerged connected Friday, indicated that astir 2,000 radical person successfully travelled from the Bara locality, which the RSF recaptured past week, to the authorities superior of el-Obeid, astir 60 kilometres (37 miles) to the south.

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The rest, however, “remain en way nether harsh conditions and facing terrible shortages of food, water, and shelter,” the organisation said successful a statement, adding that North Kordofan faces a “deteriorating information situation”.

شبكة أطباء السودان: الدعم السريع يتسبب في نزوح أكثر من 4500 مواطن من بارا ووصل 1900 شخصا إلى مدينة الأبيض

تشهد ولاية شمال كردفان موجة نزوح متسارعة من محلية بارا باتجاه مدينة الأبيض نتيجة لتدهور الأوضاع الأمنية واستمرار انتهاكات الدعم السريع ضد المدنيين. وتشير التقارير الميدانية… pic.twitter.com/cmCFFrt6WY

— Sudan Doctors Network – شبكة أطباء السودان (@SDN154) October 31, 2025

The metropolis of Bara has been a cardinal node of warring betwixt the RSF and the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) for months. In July, the RSF raided and acceptable occurrence to North Kordofan villages successful an attack that killed astir 300 people, including children and large women.

SAF took power of Bara successful mid-September, but by past week, it was backmost successful the hands of the RSF.

The exodus comes arsenic the RSF commits a question of atrocities successful el-Fasher, the superior of North Darfur authorities to the westbound of North Kordofan, including wide killings of more than 1,500 people, summary executions and rapes.

Although much than 36,000 radical attempted to flight el-Fasher, the bulk of civilians remain trapped successful the city. Survivors person counted children killed earlier their parents and their bodies strewn successful the streets.

Al Jazeera has verified aggregate videos that papers RSF troops lasting implicit piles of dormant bodies and executing a enactment of unarmed young men.

Widening conflict

Experts pass that the RSF’s seizure of el-Fasher – wherever the paramilitaries had chopped disconnected nutrient and medicine entree for astir 18 months – could embolden them to perpetrate akin atrocities successful North Kordofan.

Bakry Eljack, a nationalist argumentation prof and Sudan and South Sudan adept astatine Long Island University Brooklyn, told Al Jazeera that “the RSF has been retired of control” and, arsenic has been “borne aggregate times, they request to power their soldiers”.

RSF person Mohamad Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo said connected Wednesday helium would signifier an enquiry committee to analyse “violations” by his soldiers successful el-Fasher – a committedness panned by experts.

“If we don’t bash thing astir this, it’s not going to extremity successful el-Fasher, it’s going to grow to North Kordofan,” Eljack said. “There’s nary warrant what we’ve seen successful el-Fasher is not going to beryllium repeated determination else.”

The ruinous civilian warfare broke retired successful 2023, erstwhile a powerfulness conflict betwixt the RSF forces and the SAF prompted warring successful the capital, Khartoum.

Since then, the RSF has taken power of much than a 3rd of the state successful a struggle that has killed tens of thousands and displaced 12 million, astir a 4th of its population, becoming the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, according to the United Nations.

In an emergency session of the UN Security Council connected Thursday, the United Nations’ adjunct secretary-general for Africa, Martha Pobee, called the takeover of el-Fasher “a important displacement successful the information dynamics” successful the region, citing escalating warring successful North Kordofan.

“The territorial scope of the struggle is broadening,” she said.