Sudanese cultural and civic life through the war and across the global diaspora. Music, art, food, Nubian heritage, Sufism. The remarkable civil-society response: Resistance Committees and Emergency Response Rooms running mutual-aid and famine-relief at the grassroots. The legacy of the 2018-19 December Revolution ('Tasgut Bas'). And the global Sudanese diaspora — Egypt, Gulf, UK, US — organizing solidarity, fundraising, and remittances. Bilingual EN + AR.

The economic layer. Gold (58%+ of export value, and a key war-financing resource), gum arabic (Sudan produces 75-80% of the world's supply), sesame, livestock, agriculture. The currency collapse (Sudanese pound down 80%+, inflation 300%+, GDP contracted 40-50% since 2023). Telecoms (Zain, MTN, Sudatel) and recurring internet blackouts. Reconstruction conversation as SAF retakes territory. Key institutions: Central Bank of Sudan, Bank of Khartoum, SMRC.

The political and geopolitical layer. The internationally-recognized SAF government (Sovereignty Council, Burhan, PM Kamil Idris) vs. the RSF's parallel 'Government of Peace and Unity' (Tasis / Sudan Founding Alliance, Hemedti, deputy al-Hilu, PM al-Taishi) and the partition risk. Diplomacy: AU, IGAD, UN Security Council, the US-led Quad, Jeddah talks, sanctions, ICC. Foreign actors: UAE (RSF's main patron), Egypt / Iran / Russia (SAF-aligned), Chad (transit), Ethiopia, plus the gold economy financing the war.

The humanitarian catastrophe — the world's largest displacement and hunger crisis. Famine confirmed in El Fasher, Zamzam camp, and Kadugli; ~21M people in acute food insecurity; the El Fasher massacre (Oct 2025), described by researchers as the largest mass killing of the 21st century; ethnic violence against the Masalit; sexual violence; mass displacement; and the aid-operations layer (WFP, UNHCR, UNICEF, OCHA, MSF, ICRC). Sober, factual monitoring of an active atrocity.

PRIMARY campaign. The SAF-RSF civil war (April 2023-present): frontlines and territorial control, the El Fasher siege and fall (Oct 2025), the SAF recapture of Khartoum (Mar 2025) and the government's return (Jan 2026), the Kordofan offensive that is now the active front, drone warfare, ceasefire attempts, and the two principals (Abdel Fattah al-Burhan / SAF and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo 'Hemedti' / RSF). Multilingual EN + AR, with transliteration variants for every contested city.

The regional spillover — the world's largest displacement crisis pushing across every Sudanese border. Refugees into Chad (Adré crossing, the Darfur exodus), Egypt (the largest Sudanese refugee population, concentrated in Cairo and Aswan), South Sudan (Renk, returnees and refugees), Ethiopia, and Libya. The cross-border dimension that mainstream single-country listening misses: transit corridors, host-country tensions, the UAE-Chad RSF supply route, and diaspora-refugee linkages. EN + AR + French (for Chad).

The SAF-held east and north — the de facto seat of the recognized government for most of the war. Port Sudan (Bur Sudan) on the Red Sea has functioned as the wartime capital, hosting government, UN agencies, and the main aid corridor; it has also come under RSF drone attack. Kassala and Gedaref in the east; Atbara, Dongola, Merowe, and Nubia in the north. Relatively more stable, but strategically central to aid logistics and reconstruction.

The war's epicenter of atrocity, under near-total RSF control. El Fasher (Al-Fashir) — besieged from May 2024, fallen October 2025, site of the massacre researchers call the largest mass killing of the 21st century. Nyala (RSF's de facto Darfur capital), El Geneina (the 2023 Masalit killings), Zalingei, Ed Daein. The Zamzam famine camp. Full transliteration-variant coverage because the Darfur place names fragment the most across spellings and languages.

The capital region and central states. The Khartoum tri-city (Khartoum, Omdurman, Bahri/Khartoum North), recaptured by the SAF in March 2025 with the government returning January 2026 to a badly damaged city. Gezira state and Wad Madani. And the Kordofan region — now the war's active front, with near-daily drone strikes on El Obeid, Kadugli, and surrounding towns. Full transliteration-variant coverage.