Makeshift shelters erected by displaced Sudanese at the Um Yanqur camp in Sudan`s western Darfur region, on November 3, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

A UN agency has reported that over 10,000 people were displaced due to fierce fighting in the past few days in Sudan.

The United Nations migration agency said on Sunday that fresh violence between Sudan`s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) in western and southern Sudan forced more than 10,000 people to flee within three days last week.

The RSF, after gaining control of the North Darfur capital of al-Fashir in October, has pushed westward in recent days, through enclaves inhabited by the Zaghawa ethnic group and controlled by an army-allied militia.

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that between December 25 and 26, attacks on the villages of Um Baru and Kernoi near Sudan`s western border with Chad displaced more than 7,000 people.

Between Christmas Eve and Friday, a further 3,100 people were displaced from the famine-stricken city of Kadugli in South Kordofan, which has been under siege by paramilitary forces for over a year and a half.

The two rivaling forces and their allies with affiliated militaries have been fighting since April 2023, killing tens of thousands of people and uprooting more than 11 million people in what the UN has called a "war of atrocities."

Presently, resource-rich Kordofan is witnessing the fiercest fighting. The RSF and its allies seek to recapture Sudan`s central corridor, leading from Darfur back towards the capital Khartoum.

The continuous fighting in Sudan has created one of the world`s largest hunger and displacement crises, effectively splitting the African country into two parts, one controlled by Sudan`s regular army in the north, east, and center, while the RSF and its allies dominate all five state capitals in Darfur and parts of the south.