Last updated on 21 February 2025.
The war in Sudan is a war on people. Across large parts of Sudan, and especially in Darfur, people have experienced ongoing violence, including intense urban warfare, gunfire, shelling, and airstrikes. Our teams are treating patients with injuries caused by explosions, bullets, and stabbings. Healthcare workers and facilities have been attacked and looted.
An estimated 12 million people have been displaced, including over 3 million who have sought safety in Chad, Egypt and South Sudan (UNHCR). Displaced people’s camps lack adequate healthcare and humanitarian aid. There are catastrophic levels of malnutrition.
The World Health Organization estimates that 70 to 80 per cent of health facilities are non-operational. With very few international aid organisations on the ground, the humanitarian response is far from adequate. Restrictions imposed on humanitarian organisations by the Sudanese authorities further isolate people in need of assistance.
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MSF’s response in Sudan
In Sudan, MSF is present in 10 out of the 18 states in the country. Our 1,500 Sudanese staff and 200 international staff currently work in and/or support 22 hospitals and 42 basic healthcare facilities, clinics, and mobile clinic sites.
In Sudan, MSF teams:
- Provide emergency medical treatment, including surgeries, for war wounded and non-war related injuries.
- Respond to disease outbreaks.
- Provide maternal and paediatric healthcare
- Offer water and sanitation services.
- Donate medicines and medical supplies to healthcare facilities, and provide incentives, training, and logistical support to Ministry of Health staff.
- Treat children and pregnant women with malnutrition both at-home and in-hospital.
- Conduct vaccination campaigns.

MSF emergency response in Sudan (January-December 2024)
889,700
889,7
194,000
194,
59,880
59,88
24,310
24,31
MSF’s response in bordering countries

MSF briefs UN Security Council on “war on people” in Sudan

Thousands of cholera patients treated in Sudan’s White Nile State

Sudan: MSF forced to halt activities as violence engulfs Zamzam camp in North Darfur

Over 800 people hospitalised and dozens are dead from waterborne infection in Sudan’s White Nile state

Mass influxes of wounded patients arrive at hospitals across Sudan as “war on people” continues

MSF renews call for immediate action to prevent death and starvation in Sudan

Sudan: MSF condemns Omdurman market attack

MSF denounces violent attacks leading to suspension of activities at key Khartoum hospital

MSF condemns RSF's violent attack on Bashair Teaching hospital in South Khartoum

South Sudan receives thousands of displaced and injured people fleeing intensified war in Sudan

One in six war-wounded patients at south Khartoum hospital are children
