Report

Exhausted: Three years of displacement and the collapse of survival systems in Sudan and the region

Published 09. Apr 2026|Updated 08. Apr 2026

On 15 April 2023, war broke out in Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Since then, the fighting has been fierce, turning major cities into battlegrounds, villages and farms into ashes, and forcing millions of families to flee their homes. Hundreds of thousands died in the violence, and entire communities were killed because of their ethnicity in Darfur.

Three years later, Sudan has become one of the world's largest humanitarian crises, with mass atrocities inflicted on civilians, and famine confirmed in multiple areas.

The crisis did not stop at Sudan’s borders.

To understand how Sudanese are coping three years into the war, we surveyed refugees and IDPs across Sudan, Chad and South Sudan. Findings are supplemented by a separate needs assessment by partners in Egypt and REACH’s Multi-Sector Needs Monitoring (MSNM) Round 2 data for Libya.

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