More than 1,200 civilians have been newly displaced from Sudan’s South and North Kordofan states as security conditions deteriorated, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Sunday.
In a statement, the UN agency said its field displacement teams recorded that 780 people were forced to leave the city of Dilling in South Kordofan between Wednesday and Friday as the security situation worsened. The agency described conditions in the area as highly tense and volatile and said it continues to closely monitor developments.
The IOM also reported that an additional 510 people were displaced from the village of Al-Sanjouqi in the Umm Dam Haj Ahmed locality of North Kordofan due to the same security concerns. Those displaced moved to various locations within the Umm Dam Haj Ahmed and Sheikan localities, the agency said.
Earlier, on December 18, the IOM said that a total of 50,445 people had been displaced across Sudan’s three Kordofan states — North, West and South Kordofan — between October 26 and December 17.
The region has experienced weeks of intense fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), forcing tens of thousands of civilians to flee their homes.
Of Sudan’s 18 states, the RSF controls all five states in the Darfur region in the west, with the exception of some northern areas of North Darfur that remain under army control. The Sudanese army, meanwhile, holds most parts of the remaining 13 states in the south, north, east and center of the country, including the capital Khartoum.
The conflict between the Sudanese army and the RSF, which began in April 2023, has resulted in the deaths of thousands of people and the displacement of millions across the country.
