It’s now in its fourth year, it’s displaced over 14 million people, and it’s getting more dangerous — not less. The UN says Sudan needs a ceasefire, right now.

So, let’s talk about what’s actually happening in Sudan, because the headlines barely scratch the surface.

The United Nations is calling for an immediate, full ceasefire as drone warfare, foreign interference, and relentless attacks on healthcare push an already catastrophic crisis to breaking point.

Here’s the scale of it. When fighting erupted in April 2023 after a power struggle between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), few thought it would still be raging in late 2026. But it is. More than six million people are displaced inside the country, with another 4.5 million forced to flee across borders — and the UN’s latest tally puts total displacement at more than 14 million, making it one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises in decades.

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk has been pretty blunt about it. He says civilians in several regions, particularly around El Obeid in North Kordofan — a city that’s been under siege-like conditions for 18 months — face an imminent risk of further attacks. His message? Stop the foreign meddling, stop the fighting, and get back to civilian rule.

And what’s changed the war is drones.

A new UN fact-finding mission report published this week says both sides are now using long-range combat drones and loitering munitions — the kind that can hover before striking — to hit targets far beyond the old front lines. The result has been devastating for civilians.

The mission found that more than 1,000 people were killed in drone strikes in just the first five months of 2026 alone. Investigators say there are reasonable grounds to believe both the SAF and RSF have committed serious violations of international humanitarian law that may amount to war crimes.

Some of the incidents are almost too grim to process. In South Kordofan, strikes on a kindergarten and a hospital killed 114 people, including 60 children. In East Darfur, an attack on Ad-Da’ein Teaching Hospital killed at least 70 people — an attack the UN Secretary-General António Guterres has strongly condemned.

It’s part of a pattern. Since April 2023, the World Health Organization has verified more than 200 attacks harming health facilities in Sudan, resulting in more than 2,000 deaths.

The UN investigators also point to what’s fuelling it. They found evidence of a network involving individuals and entities in the UAE, Chad, Libya and Somalia supplying the RSF with weapons, logistics and training, including up to 2,000 Colombian contractors brought in to operate drone systems. On the other side, they say the army’s long-range strike capability has also been expanded by foreign-supplied combat drones.

For context, Sudan had only just started a fragile transition to civilian rule after the ousting of long-time autocrat Omar al-Bashir in 2019. The 2023 war shattered that hope, and despite several US-brokered proposals — including a recent 90-day humanitarian truce plan — a permanent ceasefire still feels painfully far off.

Right now, the UN Security Council and humanitarian agencies like OCHA and MSF are warning that drone strikes are not only killing civilians but deliberately targeting hospitals, schools, markets, displacement sites and even WFP aid convoys — attacks that the Security Council says may constitute war crimes.

The call from Geneva is clear: enforce the Darfur arms embargo across all of Sudan, protect civilians and health workers, and end this war before another generation is lost.

Source: Cbinews

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