Sudan: IOM – 200k+ Displaced Across Kordofan As Fighting Intensifies

El Obeid / Sheikan Locality / Heiban Locality — More than 200,000 people have been displaced across Sudan’s Kordofan region since the end of 2025 as fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) intensifies, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said.

Displacement in Sheikan locality, which includes El Obeid, has risen by 25 per cent over the past eight months.

In a statement published on Monday, IOM warned that Sudan’s humanitarian…