Last updated on 25 July 2024.
People across large parts of Sudan, especially in Darfur, 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 10 million people have been displaced, including 2 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.
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 eight out of the 18 states in the country. Our 926 Sudanese staff and 118 international staff currently work in and/or support 14 hospitals and seven basic healthcare facilities or clinics. We also provide healthcare in mobile clinics in two camps.
In Sudan, MSF teams:
- provide emergency medical treatment, including surgeries, for war wounded and non-war related injuries.
- run mobile clinics for displaced people.
- treat communicable and non-communicable diseases
- provide maternal and paediatric healthcare
- offers 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 severe acute malnutrition.
- provide mental health support
MSF emergency response in Sudan (Jan-Jun 2024)
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MSF’s response in bordering countries
![Malnutrition in Zamzam camp, North Darfur Malnutrition in Zamzam camp, North Darfur](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/2j6y0g0a607864uju5oi7an6tn6k8156.jpg)
Last hospital in El Fasher risks closure during intensive bombardment on the city
![Bullet hole caused by shooting in the operating room of the Zalingei teaching hospital, Central Darfur state, Sudan. Bullet hole caused by shooting in the operating room of the Zalingei teaching hospital, Central Darfur state, Sudan.](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/110r6ps14165g8k314p136t8114nbxv3.jpg)
Attacks on hospitals and aid blockade in El Fasher jeopardises lives
![Attacks on Health facilities Attacks on Health facilities](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/4l0s58kyf2fa2e21h7m6rtg12q48g8b1.jpg)
A war on people: the human cost of conflict and violence in Sudan
![El Geneina Teaching Hospital in West Darfur El Geneina Teaching Hospital in West Darfur](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/3ddy3340gs144ep25ct6j7n448r3sdlv.jpg)
MSF report reveals catastrophic toll of ‘a war on people’ in Sudan
![Mobile clinic in Southern Madagascar Mobile clinic in Southern Madagascar](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/423tl82td08je37x065k305m87ej8h55.jpg)
MSF suspends delivery of care in Khartoum’s Turkish hospital
![Refugee crisis deepens in Chad as conflict in Sudan rages Refugee crisis deepens in Chad as conflict in Sudan rages](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/t7hns2w7cq334q3syhjg62a7tmv480t7.jpg)
Voices of El Geneina; surviving the conflict one year on
![Intense fighting in El Fasher - Darfur Intense fighting in El Fasher - Darfur](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/mc8xw1eqo00b3i8qf7533s6dui341an3.jpg)
People trapped, aid blocked, as UN resolution fails to stop fighting in El Fasher
![Where the transition has no end Where the transition has no end](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/63w31shkmun7khhc72147t1ehlwva2m5.jpg)
War in Sudan exacerbates humanitarian needs in neighbouring South Sudan
![Doctors Without Borders alarms insufficient response to the rising migrant influx in Darien jungle Doctors Without Borders alarms insufficient response to the rising migrant influx in Darien jungle](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/x63lh4177l2lq8p2v1050to4062d7ccy.jpg)
Year in Review 2023
![One by One, Hospitals Are Damaged and Closed in Al Fasher as Fighting Rages On One by One, Hospitals Are Damaged and Closed in Al Fasher as Fighting Rages On](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/ueebrw8hi3inb5ca5m8q8f3s74xq04c4.jpg)
One by one, hospitals are damaged and closed in El Fasher as fighting rages
![El Fasher - July 2023 El Fasher - July 2023](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/042m8y2ncu12k672t087q00h210p3q7u.jpg)
Nowhere safe from violent fighting in El Fasher as hospitals are repeatedly hit
![Bullet hole caused by shooting in the operating room of the Zalingei teaching hospital, Central Darfur state, Sudan. Bullet hole caused by shooting in the operating room of the Zalingei teaching hospital, Central Darfur state, Sudan.](https://img.msf.org/AssetLink/110r6ps14165g8k314p136t8114nbxv3.jpg)