With 12 million displaced and little global focus, Sudan faces a worsening catastrophe as Rep. Chris Smith calls for a worldwide response and an immediate end to fighting between armed groups.

The drone strikes were blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, extending a pattern of atrocities in Sudan’s 2½-year civil war.

In Kadugli, a besieged city in Sudan's Kordofan region, escalating violence and worsening famine have left civilians trapped in a state of constant fear, according to testimonies gathered by AFP.

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan visits Saudi Arabia as war rages between Sudanese army, paramilitary RSF - Anadolu Ajansı

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Monday it had taken control of the strategic Heglig oilfield in the South Kordofan province.

Paramilitary groups have intensified an offensive on a crucial region bordering Darfur, prompting fears of another massacre.

Advances by paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan could trigger another exodus across the country's borders, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, told Reuters. The RSF took over Darfur's

South Sudan has sent its troops to neighbouring Sudan to guard the strategic Heglig oil field near the border, its military head said on Thursday, days after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took control of it.

RSF fighters in El Fashir have rounded up civilians en masse, survivors told The Post, subjecting them to torture and extorting their families for cash.