Sudan: Measles Cases Surge in Darfur Despite Months of Warnings and Calls for Vaccination

Zalingei, December 19, 2025 – Measles cases are rising rapidly across Central, South and West Darfur, in the absence of an urgent and effective vaccination campaign. More than 1,300 cases have been recorded since September 2025 in health facilities supported by MSF despite MSF repeatedly advocating for vaccination campaigns and the resumption of routine immunisation … Read more

Sudan: Adapting to aid funding cuts in West Darfur

“My name is Asmaa Hussein Al-Taishi, Executive Director of the Sudanese Family Planning Association (SFPA) in El Geneina, West Darfur. Reproductive health services for women in El Geneina are very limited and not easily accessible. As a local association, we provide a range of essential services in West Darfur, including sexual and reproductive healthcare, protection … Read more

Sudan: One month after RSF takeover of El Fasher

One month after RSF takeover of El Fasher, displaced people survive in precarious conditions while others remain blocked or unaccounted for MSF patients in Tawila describe mass killings, torture, and kidnappings for ransom in El Fasher and along escape routes. Their stories confirm fears for those still missing. MSF continues to expand its capacities in … Read more

The war on Sudan: the choice is ours

By Jean-Nicolas Armstrong-Dangelser, MSF Senior Operations Advisor. Mighty desert, mighty rivers, The flow of life in the heat of passions The depths of the message are hard to reach Standing still in the action The sands and the waters are speaking the same language We are at the crossroad of space and time The hardest … Read more

Sudan: People facing extreme malnutrition in protracted crisis

Port Sudan 11 November 2025– As starved people continue trying to flee atrocities committed by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in El Fasher, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams are providing urgent care to those who have reached the town of Tawila. Here MSF is witnessing extreme levels of acute malnutrition, in what is now the … Read more

‘Sudan’s crisis of compassion, sketched in my watercolour journal’

The scenes change: different ages, genders, faces, and stories. But when I look into the eyes of the young ones, of women, even of men on the road of displacement and migration, do you know who I see reflected in their eyes? I see myself. I am Narin Fandoglu—human before I became a humanitarian. My … Read more

Sudan: Urgent appeal for El Fasher’s people

Paris, 31 October 2025 – Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) denounces the horrendous mass atrocities and killings, both indiscriminate and ethnically-targeted, that have culminated this week in and around El Fasher. We reiterate our fear that large numbers of people remain in grave danger and are being prevented by the Rapid Support Forces and its allies from reaching safer … Read more

Sudan: MSF appeals for civilians to be spared in El Fasher

MSF appeals for civilians’ lives to be spared in El Fasher, Sudan’s North Darfur capital, and for them to be allowed to flee to safer areas. Given the ethnic-based violence spiking across Darfur for over two years and the large-scale massacres committed in Zamzam when the camp was taken last April by the RSF and … Read more

Sudan: Deadly attacks across Darfur leave nearly 100 wounded people in MSF-supported facilities

Port Sudan, 11 September 2025 – Following a series of attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), 99 wounded patients, including women and children, arrived at Médecins Sans Frontières-supported health facilities across North, Central, and South Darfur in Sudan, on 10 September. Four people across the facilities were declared … Read more

Sudan: Ongoing mass atrocities against civilians in and around El Fasher, North Darfur

Paris, 3 July 2025 – Mass atrocities are underway in Sudan’s North Darfur region, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned in a report today, urging the warring parties to halt indiscriminate and ethnically targeted violence and facilitate an immediate large-scale humanitarian response. MSF is extremely concerned about the threats of a full-blown assault on the hundreds of thousands … Read more