Sudan war marks one-year anniversary

The brutal war for control of the mineral-rich country has killed more than 15,000 people, sparked the world’s biggest displacement crisis and left 18 million people facing acute food insecurity


Apr 15, 2023: Power struggle between Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (left), and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti (right), erupts into full-scale conflict


SAF and affiliates 
RSF and affiliates
Contested 
Worst fighting


LIBYA
CHAD

DARFUR REGION 
Conflict reigniting ethnically-targeted killings

Al Fashir 
Nyala
C.A.R.
EGYPT
River Nile
Mostly uninhabited
SUDAN 
Khartoum: Much of capital destroyed and depopulated after year of heavy fighting
Khartoum
El Obeid
Wad Madani
SOUTH SUDAN

GEZIRA STATE
RSF momentum stalled after successful offensive in December

Red Sea
Port Sudan
ERITREA 
ETHIOPIA
100km 60 miles


Over 8.6m people – 16% of population – displaced within Sudan or in other countries, mainly Egypt, Chad and South Sudan


Sources: International Crisis Group, UNOCHA 
Pictures: Getty Images 
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