Sudan

El Fasher is a city located in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Port Sudan is a city in Sudan situated on the Red Sea coast.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is an armed group in Sudan that has engaged in armed conflict with the Sudanese military.

As of 2025, a civil war in Sudan has produced a severe humanitarian crisis.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is a paramilitary force in Sudan that has been engaged in fighting against the Sudanese army.

By November 19, 2025, Sudan had experienced a civil war of roughly two-and-a-half years characterized by a power struggle between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The armed conflict in Sudan has displaced millions of people, contributed to famine conditions, and led to allegations of genocide.

The Abraham Accords are U.S.-brokered agreements, initiated in 2020, that normalized diplomatic and commercial relations between Israel and several Arab countries.

The World Health Organization reported in 2025 that fighting in Sudan had killed at least 40,000 people.

The World Food Programme reported in 2025 that over 24 million people in Sudan were facing acute food insecurity.

A civil war in Sudan began in April 2023 and, by November 5, 2025, had been reported to have caused as many as 150,000 deaths; the United Nations has assessed that both primary parties in the conflict deliberately targeted civilians and destroyed essential infrastructure such as hospitals, markets, and displacement camps, constituting war crimes.

As of 2025, the armed conflict between the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had killed more than 40,000 people and displaced more than 14 million people.

A 2025 analysis by the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale School of Public Health identified at least 31 clusters of objects consistent with human bodies in satellite imagery of El-Fasher, Sudan between October 27 and October 31, 2025.

A 2025 report by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) found evidence consistent with systematic mass killings outside El Fasher, Sudan, based on satellite imagery collected on October 27–28, 2025.

A 2025 analysis by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab reported satellite measurements showing ground objects consistent with human bodies measuring approximately 1.3 to 2.0 meters in length in areas outside El Fasher, Sudan.

Since the Sudan conflict began in 2023, reporting in 2025 indicated that roughly 12 million people had been displaced and approximately 150,000 people had been killed nationwide.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) originated from the Janjaweed militia that operated in Darfur during the early 2000s.

By October 2025, roughly two and a half years of armed conflict in Sudan had resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and approximately 14 million people displaced, a situation the United Nations described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

The 2025 World Food Programme identified Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan as countries facing major disruptions to food aid operations.

In 2025, the World Health Organization reported that more than 40,000 people wounded in Gaza had life-altering injuries.

The Darfur conflict lasted from 2003 to 2020.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is a Sudanese rebel militia that has been accused of genocide.

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces have been engaged in armed conflict since April 2023.

Since 2023, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been engaged in armed conflict with Sudan's national army over control of Sudan.

Sudan signed a U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords declaration in January 2021, but subsequent internal political unrest prevented efforts to formalize diplomatic relations with Israel.

The Abraham Accords, formalized in 2020, established normalized diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco.

The Abraham Accords are diplomatic agreements under which some Arab and Muslim-majority countries normalized relations with Israel, including Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates.

In March 2017, U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang issued a nationwide injunction blocking President Donald Trump's revised "travel ban," the March 2017 executive order that suspended travel for 90 days from six majority-Muslim countries (Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen) and paused the entry of asylum seekers for 120 days.

During Donald Trump's first presidential term (2017–2021), Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates reached agreements to normalize relations with Israel that are commonly referred to as the Abraham Accords.

Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and the United Arab Emirates joined the Abraham Accords and normalized diplomatic relations with Israel.

Sudan is Africa's third-largest country by land area.

Humanitarian reporting indicates that the conflict in Sudan has produced very large humanitarian needs, with at least 40,000 reported deaths and roughly 12 million people displaced.

Countries that have signed agreements under the Abraham Accords normalizing diplomatic relations with Israel include the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco.