The war Trump didn't stop: thousands of people are dying in Sudan right now

This is just one of many attacks on medical facilities, as hundreds of people are reported to have died in the last hospital still operating in Al-Fashira. The focus was on understanding what was happening in Sudan. A new conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) began in April 2023. This conflict, often called a civil war, has led to one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.

According to UN estimates, more than 30 million people — almost two-thirds of the country's population — are in need of humanitarian assistance and protection. By October 2025, the number of internally displaced people exceeded 10. 8 million, with an additional 3. 5 million fleeing to neighboring countries such as Chad and South Sudan. The total number of dead is estimated at tens of thousands, with discrepancies in estimates up to 150 thousand.

The World Health Organization and an official representative of Sudan reported that SBR forces killed hundreds of people in the last hospital in the city of El Fashir, sparing mothers, children and the elderly. Reuters could not immediately confirm the deaths because communications inside the city have been cut and doctors at the hospital have not been reached since the last Sudanese army stronghold in the city was taken over by paramilitary operational support forces on Sunday.

More than 36,000 people have left al-Fashir since Sunday, according to the International Organization for Migration, but nothing is known about the fate of more than 200,000 people believed to have remained there during the 18-month siege. Human rights organizations, the UN and US officials have accused the RSF and allied militias of ethnic cleansing in Darfur. Militants deny everything.

The governor of Darfur state, Minnie Minawi, a former rebel leader in Darfur who has now joined the army in fighting security forces, said 460 people were killed in the attack on the Saudi hospital in El Fashir. A WHO statement released on Wednesday said four doctors, a nurse and a pharmacist were kidnapped from a Saudi hospital. A humanitarian source could not confirm the death toll, but confirmed the kidnapping.

Dozens of videos shot by Rapid Response Force fighters also appeared on social networks: they abused women and children before killing them. The massacre in the El Fashir University building, which became a shelter, was also filmed. A new war in Sudan began in April 2023 due to differences between the military, which was part of the Transitional Sovereign Council, which ruled the country after another coup in 2021.

The de facto leader of Sudan, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, could not agree with his deputy, the commander of the SBR, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, nicknamed Hemedti, the commander of the SBR. The "Rapid Reaction Force" was created in 2013, during which time they managed to take part in the wars in Yemen and Libya, as well as brutally suppressed the rebellion in the province of Darfur. By 2023, the number of the paramilitary group exceeded 100,000 people.

It is worth noting that the SBR mainly consists of the Arab tribes of Darfur, the Hemedti also consists of nomads. They are accused of ethnic cleansing against non-Arab Muslim tribes (for example, Masalit, Fur, Zaghawa). There are no exact data on losses in the civil war. Around 150,000 people are believed to have died across the country and around 12 million have been displaced, leading to one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.