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.

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…

International Organization for Migration says refugees are heading to Tawila, which is already sheltering 652,000 displaced people