Sudan Civil War
Fighting between the army and the RSF has produced the world's largest displacement and hunger crisis.
Severity score
70.4
Critical · default weighting
Trajectory
Worsening
What this is
War between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces broke out in April 2023 and spread from Khartoum across Darfur and Kordofan. It has produced the largest displacement crisis in the world, catastrophic famine conditions in multiple localities, ethnically targeted mass killings in Darfur, and near-total collapse of the health system. Reporting access is severely restricted, so death tolls are widely believed to be substantial undercounts.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
82Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
88People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
45Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
35Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
95Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
Recent coverage
- 30 Jul 2026cfr.orgCivil War in Sudan | Global Conflict Tracker
- 30 Jul 2026rescue.orgCrisis in Sudan: What is happening and how to help
- 30 Jul 2026instagram.comThe spillover of Sudan's civil war threatens to plunge Eastern ...
- 30 Jul 2026gov.uksecurity situation, Sudan, July 2026 (accessible)
- 30 Jul 2026instagram.comAcross Sudan, children bear the brunt of more than three ...