Monitoring Brief Food-related violence in Sudan since January 2025 (May 2025)

Food-related violence continued to be reported in Sudan between 1 January and 31 March 2025 in addition to the blockading of essential food supplies from urban areas, most notably in El Fasher. This briefing provides an overview of the most frequently reported forms of food violence over this period.

The incidents documented form part of a broader pattern in which food and food-related infrastructure have been repeatedly attacked, looted, damaged and destroyed since mid-April 2023, especially in the states of Darfur, Gezira, Kordofan and Khartoum. For details of the long-term trends, see Insecurity Insight’s in-depth report on conflict and hunger in Sudan:
The Sudan Crisis: How Over a Year of Violence and Humanitarian Access Restrictions Have Produced Famine Conditions (January 2025).

Insecurity Insight’s data on food-related violence is available for download via the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX).

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