Sudan Crisis Regional Response Situation Update June 2025

OVERVIEW

Latest data from IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) shows a 13% drop in the number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sudan since January 2025, now standing at 10.1 million. This shift is driven by over one million people returning to their places of origin across Aj Jazirah, Khartoum, and Sennar states — an 89% increase compared to April.

These trends signal a catalytic opportunity to stabilize priority areas, but only if matched with an immediate injection of funding. Basic services and infrastructure are negligible in these states, with unexploded ordinances (UXOs) posing protection risks. Cholera continues to sweep through these states – with 681 deaths reported in Omdurman in a single day (24 May). IOM’s needs assessment in Khartoum indicates staggering unmet needs – in newly accessible areas, none of the surveyed households had received humanitarian assistance in the past three months, while over two-thirds live in damaged shelters requiring repair or structural support. Many are dependent of community kitchens to feed themselves and their families.

Urgent investment is required to address humanitarian needs of those returning and those who have remained trapped for over two years without access to aid. This includes life-saving health, wash, protection, and shelter support, additional investments in enablers such as data, and increased funding of early recovery initiatives. Locally led mechanisms like the Emergency Response Rooms, supported through IOM’s Rapid Response Fund (RRF), offers entrypoints to operationalize this support and lay the foundation for longer-term solutions.

In parallel, attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure in Sudan’s Darfur region continues to reach shocking heights. IOM mourns the death of five aid workers in a brutal attack on a joint humanitarian convoy in Al Fasher, North Darfur. Along with costing lives, the increasing violence risks the lives of millions in Darfur teetering on the brink of famine. IOM joins the humanitarian community in expressing solidarity and calling for the safety of aid workers and unhindered access to civilians in need.

In the region, while DTM teams continue to monitor the situation at the Libya borders with neighbouring countries and across the country, donor-supported advocacy is urgently needed to ensure vulnerable groups, such as unaccompanied children and women, are systematically represented in official data to enable accurate and responsible programming. IOM therefore calls for increased support toward efforts to improve data collection mechanisms and ensure equitable access to services and protection.

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