War in Sudan: Humanitarian, fighting, control developments, November 2025

Sudan’s service and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces oculus much territory arsenic planetary stakeholders propulsion for truce.

The humanitarian concern successful Sudan remains dire arsenic the country’s service – the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) – remains locked successful a devastating struggle with the paramilitary, Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

The generals starring the 2 sides, some accused of committing warfare crimes and crimes against humanity successful the resource-rich Northeast African nation, amusement nary existent signs of yielding to planetary calls for a ceasefire.

Here are the cardinal battlefield, humanitarian and governmental developments from this month.

Fighting and subject control

• The RSF has been sidesplitting civilians and solidifying its power implicit the West Darfur authorities aft taking implicit el-Fasher, the past remaining service stronghold successful the region, successful late October.
• The SAF holds astir of the eastbound and cardinal parts of the country, including superior Khartoum and parts of Kordofan. But the RSF and immoderate of its allied militias person been mobilising troops and instrumentality to instrumentality much areas successful cardinal Kordofan.
• The RSF has acceptable its sights connected Babnusa and el-Obeid, strategical cities that connection a captious subject vantage arsenic they supply a way to Khartoum and an economical borderline arsenic they are affluent successful agricultural, livestock and petroleum resources.
• Army soldiers celebrated their takeovers of Kazqil and Um Dam Haj Ahmed successful North Kordofan successful mid-November, and person been holding connected to territory successful cardinal Sudan arsenic planetary stakeholders propulsion for a ceasefire that could perchance frost conflict lines.

Humanitarian crisis

• Witnesses and planetary assistance agencies moving connected the crushed successful Darfur recounted wide horrific instances of atrocities committed by the RSF successful the aftermath of its bloody takeover of el-Fasher. Evidence shows RSF militias engaged successful wide killings, rape of women and girls, and taking hostages for ransom.
• Thousands of radical stay missing aft fleeing el-Fasher for surrounding areas similar Tawila. Thousands much Sudanese civilians were forced to tally to neighbouring Chad, wherever the humanitarian concern is faring nary better, and agencies are moving to assistance radical amid depleting UN finances.
• Satellite images showed that the RSF systematically burned and buried a ample fig of bodies successful wide graves crossed aggregate areas of el-Fasher to fell what a Sudanese nongovernmental aesculapian organisation called a “genocide”.
• The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, oregon IPC, successful aboriginal November confirmed that famine had been detected not lone successful el-Fasher, but besides successful Kadugli, located successful South Kordofan. The United Nations-backed planetary hunger show said 20 different areas successful Darfur and Kordofan were besides astatine superior hazard of sliding into famine conditions arsenic astir assistance remains blocked.
• Amy Pope, manager wide of the UN’s International Organization for Migration, said Sudan has the world’s largest displacement situation and that it does not get the attraction it deserves contempt mostly affecting children and women. Nearly 14 cardinal radical are displaced internally oregon forced to fly to impoverished neighbouring countries.

Mabroka Adam, a seven-year-old Sudanese exile miss from el-Fasher, poses wrong her household structure astatine the Tine transit exile campy successful eastbound Chad, November 22, 2025 [Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters]

Diplomacy and governmental developments

• The alleged Quad, comprising the United States, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, has enactment guardant a truce connection that envisages a aboriginal modulation to civilian regularisation successful Sudan. The warring continues connected the ground, adjacent arsenic the RSF has claimed to judge the connection and the SAF has refused it.
• The RSF announced connected November 6 that it had accepted the connection from the mediators, and its commanding general, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, wide known arsenic Hemedti, released a video connection connected November 26 to assertion his paramilitary unit is committed to an seemingly unilateral three-month “humanitarian truce”. But the RSF attacks did not cease successful November.
• The RSF commander’s announcement came a time aft service main Abdel Fattah al-Burhan told elder commanders successful an code released by his bureau that helium categorically rejects the Quad proposal. Al-Burhan said the connection heavy undermines the equipped forces, dissolves information agencies, and maintains the RSF successful its positions.
• The service commandant besides singled retired the UAE and said the Quad lacks credibility arsenic “the full satellite has witnessed the UAE’s enactment for rebels against the Sudanese state”. Abu Dhabi, the largest importer of golden from Sudan, continues to contradict arming and backing the RSF.
• US President Donald Trump pledged “cooperation and coordination” to extremity Sudan’s warfare aft an entreaty by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a White House visit. Trump’s elder advisor connected Arab and African affairs, Massad Boulos, held a associated quality league successful Abu Dhabi with Anwar Gargash, the diplomatic advisor to the UAE’s president, to propulsion the truce proposal.