PORT SUDAN, Sudan: Over 36,000 Sudanese civilians have fled towns and villages in the Kordofan region east of Darfur, according to the UN, as the paramilitary warned that its forces were massing along a new front line.
In recent weeks, the central Kordofan region has become a new battleground in the two-year war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
Central Kordofan is strategic because it is located between Sudan’s Darfur provinces and the area around the capital Khartoum.
The widening of the war comes just over a week after the RSF took control of El-Fasher – the army’s last stronghold in Darfur.
The RSF has set up a rival administration there, contesting the pro-army government operating out of the Red Sea city of Port Sudan.
