Sudan Doctors Network: 26 Civilians Killed in Attacks in South Kordofan State

Sudan Doctors Network: 26 civilians killed in South Kordofan attacks amid army‑RSF‑SPLM‑N clashes, causing displacement and a worsening humanitarian crisis.

News Center — Attacks continue in South Kordofan State, leaving civilian casualties and rapidly deteriorating humanitarian conditions, as fighting expands between warring parties and warnings grow over the increasing suffering of the region's population.

The Sudan Doctors Network reported yesterday, Friday, September 4, that 21 civilians, including women and children, were killed in an attack carried out by a group known as the "Sudan People's Liberation Movement‑North" (SPLM‑N), allied with the Rapid Support Forces, on the areas of Debi and Lawiri, inhabited by the Atoro tribe, south and west of Kauda city in South Kordofan, resulting in the displacement of large numbers of residents.

The network condemned the attack and accused the SPLM‑N forces of targeting civilians on an ethnic basis and displacing large numbers from their areas, affirming that this constitutes a violation of international and humanitarian law and the rules of civilian protection.

In another statement, the Sudan Doctors Network announced the killing of 5 people, including a child, and the injury of others, as a result of artillery shelling carried out by the SPLM‑N targeting neighborhoods in the city of Dilling in South Kordofan State.

Dilling is the second largest city in South Kordofan State and had been under siege for about two years imposed by the Rapid Support Forces and the SPLM‑N, before the Sudanese army announced on January 26 it had opened the road to it.

The Sudan Doctors Network had previously revealed the killing of 27 people, including 4 children, in attacks it accused the movement of carrying out against two areas in South Kordofan on an ethnic basis several days earlier.

Since October 25, 2025, the states of South, North, and West Kordofan have entered a cycle of open clashes between the Sudanese army, the Rapid Support Forces, and the allied SPLM‑N, exacerbating displacement waves in the region.

These developments come within the context of the ongoing conflict between the army and the Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, which has left a heavy human toll exceeding tens of thousands, displacement nearing 13 million people, in addition to a humanitarian crisis and famine classified among the worst globally.