UNHCR Sudan: Flash Update #3 – Darfur and Kordofan Situation Update (1 December 2025)

Overview

• One month after the takeover of El Fasher, North Darfur, and the escalation of armed clashes in Kordofan states, displacement has increased. Civilians, including previously displaced families and refugees, have been forced to flee to relatively safer states and localities. Initially, movements were localized within North Darfur, but now people are displaced across multiple states, including to Northern, Khartoum, Kassala, White Nile, Gedaref and Red Sea States. Some civilians remain trapped in El Fasher, and there is little information about their wellbeing, safety and security.
• Areas that have hosted large numbers of IDPs since the conflict began in 2023 are now experiencing a new surge of arrivals from El Fasher. This trend is significantly increasing the pressure on already overstretched resources and services in host communities. For example, as of September, Tawila locality in North Darfur, hosted over 652,000 IDPs, and since late October, has received more than than 13,000 additional individuals from El Fasher, according to reports by local authorities. Similarly, in Ad Dabbah locality, Northern State, which previously hosted over 115,000 IDPs, the Emergency Committee has recorded over 7,000 new arrivals, and the number of IDPs in Wasat Jabal Marra in Central Darfur nearly doubled with 5,844 new arrivals. Smaller hosting areas with even more limited capacity, such as Melit and Saraf Omra in North Darfur, are also reporting new arrivals. The influx of IDPs is creating urgent gaps in shelter, healthcare, protection, and other basic services.
• The main needs identified through protection monitoring are for psychosocial support for traumatized families and family tracing for unaccompanied and separated children, as well as shelter and non-food items (NFIs), cash assistance to meet basic needs, healthcare, and food. Help obtaining personal identity documents is also a sharply growing need as many IDPs lost their documents during flight.

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