War in Sudan: Human developments, fighting, control, August 2025 | Sudan war news

The civil war of Sudan has witnessed a number of developments in the battlefield as well as in diplomacy and the humanitarian crisis.

The civil war of Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Palmel Rapid Forces (RSF) has produced the largest humanitarian crisis in the world.

Estimates suggested that tens of thousands of people have died due to fighting and other thousands who perished from the diseases and hunger resulting from the war, and now until its third year.

There were many important military and political developments this month. Below are key updates:

Military fighting and control

• SAF works to unify its control over the capital, Khartoum, which it took from RSF in March. It also carries the central and eastern regions of Sudan, including the capital of Port Sudan in wartime on the Red Sea.
• In most of the sprawling western region in Darfur and many from the Kordovan region to the south.
• RSF continues to besiege North Darfur, El-Fasher, where SAF has the last Darfur garrison. If Fasher falls, RSF will rule almost the size of France in western Sudan.
• RSF attacks on El Fasher and in nearby displacement camps, including Abu Shok camp, where 190,000 people from all over Darfur sought shelter.
• It has also established huge sands around the north, west and east, which actually created the “killing box”, according to the recent satellite photos obtained by the Yale Humanicistary Center.
• RSF expands its control in Kordofan by working with a new ally, North-North (Splm-N), headed by Abdilaziz Al-Hilu. The coalition in February to face SAF in the battlefield.
• With the help of SPLM-N, RSF maintains the control of most of the west and south of Kordovan, allowing them to reach the border to South Sudan.
• SAF controls the most strategic city in North Kordofan, El-OBEID, which is besieged by RSF. SAF needs to stick to Opeid to prevent RSF from threatening central Sudan.

The humanitarian crisis

• RSF has made an estimated 260,000 civilians, including 130,000 children, in the church, who turned the city into a “center of children’s suffering”, according to UNICEF.
• Most of them escape the animal feed known as Ambaz – the remains of compressed oil seeds, such as peanuts, sesame, and sunflower – that grind them in a dough; However, even this decreases.
• About a third of the children in Melit, a city that controls RSF near the Chen, suffers from severe malnutrition, according to the figures obtained and shared with the island. This is more than twice the World Health Organization threshold for an emergency state of malnutrition.
• Cholera’s spread over the humanitarian crisis in the vast area of ​​Darfur, according to Adam Rogel, spokesman for the internal displaced people in Darfur. On August 30, he said that the disease transmitted by the water killed nine people on that day and a total of 9,143 people suffered, with 382 deaths, since the epidemic began for the first time in June 2025.
• Food convoys from the United Nations and other NGOs rarely reach the neglected area in Darfur due to the closure of bureaucratic roads and obstacles. Human rights groups and local activists accuse both weapons.
• The World Food Program told Al -Jazeera that it provides electronic cash assistance to vulnerable people in North Darfur, but no food convoys have reached the region for more than a year.
• The United Nations dining convoy struck a drone strike in North Darfur on Friday, which is the second aid convoy in three months to target it. RSF and SAF are blaming the attack.
• There is a similar state of hunger in southern Kordovan due to the RSF siege on trees and kadugli.

Diplomacy and political developments

• According to RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan, “Hemedti” Dagalo was sworn in as president of the parallel “peace government” on August 31 in the capital of South Darfur, Nyala. SAF struck the city with a drone on the same day.
• According to a secret meeting in Switzerland between the leader of SAF Abd al -Fah al -Fath and the US advisor in mid -August, on the surface to discuss a plan to end the war, according to Sudan experts and the media. The United States did not confirm the talks.
• A week after the secret meeting, Paheran retired many senior military officials, according to what was reported to the Islamic political movement of Sudan, which ruled the country for 30 years with former President Omar Al -Bashaer at the head. Experts believe that the Boran is exposed to external pressure to alleviate the influence of prominent figures associated with the government of the Bashair.