Overview
- WFP Deputy Executive Director Carl Skau says about 20 million people are acutely food insecure, including 6 million in starvation, with fighting blocking deliveries to besieged and frontline areas.
- Famine has been confirmed in el-Fasher and Kadugli after months without reliable access to food or medical care, and aid could not reach el-Fasher during the 18‑month siege that preceded the RSF takeover in October.
- Intensified battles in Kordofan include disputed claims over Babnusa and reports of siege conditions in Kadugli and Dilling, with the UN cautioning that the region risks mass atrocities.
- Local officials in South Kordofan report a deadly strike that hit a pre-school and other sites with heavy child casualties, though casualty figures and responsibility differ across accounts.
- The Sudan Doctors Network says RSF fighters raped at least 19 women who fled el-Fasher to al-Dabba, two of them pregnant, as the UN reports about 9 million displaced, over 30 million in need, and a regional response funded at under 10%.