SAF vs RSF · since 15 April 2023 · day —
Sudan. By the numbers.
There is no central death registry. No single authoritative toll exists — parties block the count, and communications blackouts hide the dead. So the headline is a range, read from the confirmed minimum up.
Read every figure here as a minimum.
Who is behind the atrocities
This is not a symmetric war. Both forces have committed atrocities and both are under scrutiny — but the gravest crimes, the documented genocide and the bulk of the sexual violence, are the RSF’s. The record below is attributed, not balanced for its own sake.
Armed from abroad
Every figure here is a minimum
Documented minimums from UN agencies and monitors. Where a single number does not exist — the dead above all — the range is given, with who says what. Each figure carries its source and date.
How we count the dead
Sudan has no functioning death registry. Warring parties block data collection; communications blackouts hide atrocities for weeks. So there is no one number — there is a ladder of methods, each measuring something different. We give all of them.
Documented events (ACLED) count only deaths a monitor can confirm, and exclude most deaths from war-driven hunger and disease. Epidemiological estimates (LSHTM) model excess deaths, with wide confidence intervals. Expert estimates put the true toll far higher. The Humanitarian Research Lab’s Nathaniel Raymond: “We can’t responsibly give a number.”
The world’s largest displacement crisis
People forced from their homes since 15 April 2023. The line only climbs. Sudan’s truces were declared, not observed — so no ceasefire band is drawn here.
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No register of the dead. A register of the missing.
Sudan keeps no state-led record of the named dead. The nearest thing to a name-level record is the tally of the disappeared.
The scale, in proportion
The same figures, set against the population and the world. Rankings and shares that carry the point a raw count can’t.
Starved, and dismantled
The first area-level famines of the war are confirmed, and the systems that hold a society up — clinics, schools, food — have been dismantled around the people who need them.
Every mark is a child killed or maimed
— children have been verified killed or maimed. The number will not stay in your head. The field below is the same number, one mark for each.
What was done, and where
The war’s documented mass atrocities, dated and sourced. The pattern — ethnically targeted killing in Darfur — runs from El Geneina in 2023 to the fall of El Fasher in 2025.
Named a genocide, twice
The record on this page has been put before governments and courts. This is what stands on the legal record — and, below it, the Darfur precedent that connects the Janjaweed of 2003 to the RSF of today.
Darfur, twenty years on
This is not the first time Darfur has been named a genocide. The same militia, renamed, is doing it again.
How this record is kept
This is a record, not a live feed. Sudan’s figures are periodic releases, so every number here is static, dated, and attributed to the body that published it. When a newer release lands, the single data object at the top of this page is updated and the figures move with it.
The death toll is given as a range on purpose. There is no central death registry in Sudan; documented counts (ACLED) capture only a fraction, and modelled estimates carry wide uncertainty. Read every figure as a confirmed minimum.
Both parties have committed atrocities, and the record reflects that without flattening it. The RSF is responsible for the documented genocide in Darfur and the large majority of documented sexual violence; the SAF is responsible for indiscriminate aerial bombardment of civilian areas and for obstructing aid. Where a claim rests on a single source — the Port Sudan in-absentia case — it is flagged as such.
Satellite evidence of mass killing and mass graves at El Fasher was documented by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab. We link to that work rather than reproduce the underlying imagery, for licensing reasons.
Primary sources: UN OCHA (needs, funding), IOM DTM (displacement), UNHCR (refugees), IPC (famine, food-security phases), WHO (health system, cholera), ACLED (fatalities, events), UN OHCHR and the UN Independent Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan (violations, genocide findings), ICC and ICJ (legal), the US State Department (determinations), Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, and the LSHTM / Sudan Research Group (mortality).
Re-pull on each update: IOM DTM · IPC · UNHCR · WHO · ACLED.