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Over 4,000 people were displaced from three villages in Sudan's North Kordofan state over two days as security conditions deteriorated, the International Organization for Migration said Sunday.
The U.N. agency's Displacement Tracking Matrix estimated that 4,250 people fled the villages of Um Arda, Tamid and Al-Khor Al-Abyad in the Shikan locality on Aug. 14 and 15.
The displaced families moved to other areas within Shikan locality and to Omdurman, west of the capital Khartoum, the IOM said.
The agency warned that the situation remains tense and volatile and said it continues to closely monitor developments on the ground.
The latest displacement followed violence in the Um Arda area, southwest of El-Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan state.
The independent rights group Emergency Lawyers said Friday that 14 civilians had been killed and dozens wounded in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, in the area.
A day earlier, Sudanese military sources told Türkiye's state-run Anadolu Agency (AA) that the army had repelled an RSF attack in Jebel Hashaba and Um Arda, southwest of El-Obeid.
The Sudanese army also said it had foiled another RSF attack on the Jabra Al-Sheikh area of North Kordofan, claiming the attacking forces suffered casualties and equipment losses.
North Kordofan, West Kordofan and South Kordofan have witnessed clashes between the Sudanese army and the RSF since Oct. 25, 2025.
Sudan has been engulfed in war since April 2023, when fighting broke out between the army and the RSF over plans to integrate the paramilitary force into the regular military.
The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced around 13 million, according to U.N. estimates.
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