War in Sudan
Last updated: July, 2026
The war in Sudan is a war on people. Across large parts of Sudan, and especially in the Darfur and Kordofans regions, people have experienced ongoing violence, including intense urban warfare, gunfire, shelling, and airstrikes. Our teams are treating patients with injuries caused by explosions, bullets, and stabbings. Healthcare workers and facilities have been attacked and looted.
Nearly 14 million people have been forcibly displaced since the conflict began, including over 4.5 million who have sought safety in neighbouring countries, according to OCHA. Displaced people’s camps lack adequate healthcare and humanitarian aid. There are catastrophic levels of malnutrition, with OCHA estimating that 5 million children under five years old, and 3.4 million pregnant and breastfeeding women, are in need of nutrition assistance. Disease outbreaks, including cholera and measles, are overwhelming already fragile health services.
This is all taking place while the World Health Organization estimates that more than one third of health facilities are non-functional in the country. With very few international aid organisations on the ground, the humanitarian response is far from adequate. Restrictions imposed on humanitarian organisations by the Sudanese authorities further isolate people in need of assistance.
People’s suffering in Sudan is not just a humanitarian crisis. It is a political failure. The humanitarian response is underfunded, deprioritised, and stalled by a lack of political will — both internationally and within Sudan. Sudan needs the world to act now, not later.
MSF's Response
Medical Activities
MSF teams provide surgical and emergency care, wound management, physiotherapy, maternity, nutrition and paediatric services, primary healthcare, routine vaccination and reactive vaccination campaigns, sexual and reproductive health care, outbreak response and epidemiological surveillance, distribution of non-food items (NFIs) and mental health support. We are also constructing boreholes and latrines, providing water trucking and water treatment and distributing food and water in IDP camps.
Presence and Supported Health Facilities
MSF is present in 10 of Sudan's 18 states.
Our teams directly manage two hospitals and two clinics, and support 13 hospitals* and 18 primary healthcare centers.
*Most facilities are Ministry of Health (MoH) structures where MSF supports specific services and departments, except for Tawila, Um Rakuba, and Daba Naira, which are fully managed by MSF.
Between January and July 2026, MSF teams in Sudan has carried out more than:
outpatient consultations
emergency presentations
surgical interventions
inpatient and ambulatory therapeutic centre admissions
Hospitalizations admissions
violence related cases
deliveries assisted
individual mental health consultations
cholera cases
sexual violence cases
Mapping our operations
— Our staff in Sudan
national staff
international mobile staff
Partner staff
Our call for Sudan
All armed groups and those who exert influence over them MUST ENSURE that humanitarian aid can move freely throughout all regions of the country. The parties to the conflict continue to impose deliberate blockades to prevent the delivery of medical and humanitarian supplies to the areas where they are desperately needed, thus preventing populations from receiving the medical care they so urgently require.
Civilians, humanitarian workers, and healthcare facilities must be spared from the fighting. Bombing of healthcare facilities, deliberate harassment, and attacks on healthcare professionals MUST STOP.
The humanitarian response MUST IMMEDIATELY be scaled up to address the massive needs of the population and put an end to this suffering.
Learn more
“There is something I want to tell you."
The report “There is something I want to tell you: Surviving the Sexual Violence Crisis in Darfur", provides the most comprehensive documented accounts of sexual violence in Sudan’s war, with survivors testimonies and data from MSF medical programmes highlighting clear patterns of widespread and systematic abuse. Between January 2024 and November 2025, at least 3,396 survivors of sexual violence sought treatment in MSF-supported facilities across North and South Darfur, though MSF warns this represents only a fraction of the true scale, as many survivors cannot safely reach care. Women and girls accounted for 97% of survivors treated in MSF programmes.
MSF's response in border countries
The war in Sudan has sparked the world’s largest displacement crisis, with more than 7 million internally displaced in addition to over 4 million who have fled to other countries.
Our teams provide support for refugees and returnees in neighboring Chad and South Sudan, where many displaced people live in poor conditions with limited access to basic needs.
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