Kordofan region

Kordofan (Arabic: كردفان Kurdufān) is a former province of central Sudan. In 1994 it was divided into three new federal states: North Kordofan, South Kordofan and West Kordofan.

A Sudanese soldier walking on the Shambat bridge that once connected Omdurman with the Khartoum district of Bahri on the opposite bank of the River Nile, on April 27, 2025. (Photo by Giles Clarke/Avaaz via Getty Images)
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Sudan army frees hundreds of people after retaking RSF-held town

The Kordofan region has witnessed some of the fiercest fighting in the war between Sudan's army and paramilitaries which began more than 1,000 days ago

The New Arab Staff
10 January, 2026
Smoke billows after a drone strike on the port of Port Sudan
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Drone strike kills 10, including 7 children, in Sudan's El-Obeid

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
06 January, 2026
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Drone strike on hospital in Sudan's Kordofan region kills seven

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
14 December, 2025
People who fled the Zamzam camp for the internally displaced after it fell under RSF control, walk in a makeshift encampment in an open field near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on April 13, 2025
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RSF massacre in South Kordofan kills 79, including 43 children

The New Arab Staff
06 December, 2025
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UN warns of new wave of atrocities in Sudan's Kordofan region

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
04 December, 2025
A man walks near heavily-damaged buildings in the Lamab suburb on the southwestern outskirts of Sudan's capital Khartoum on July 30, 2025 as residents return amidst reconstruction efforts. (Photo by EBRAHIM HAMID/AFP via Getty Images)
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US proposal to end Sudan war calls for civil-led transition

The New Arab Staff
02 December, 2025
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23 children die of malnutrition in a month in Sudan's Kordofan

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
22 November, 2025
Newly graduated Sudanese army soldiers show their skills during a ceremony in Merowe in northern Sudan on February 27, 2025. (AFP via Getty Images)
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Drone attacks hit northern Sudan as Rubio urges RSF arms ban

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
13 November, 2025
Boys check a fire that broke out in a destroyed house in a war-torn neighborhood in Omdurman on November 2, 2024. (Photo by AMAURY FALT-BROWN/AFP via Getty Images)
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UN warns 'intensified hostilities' ahead in Sudan

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
07 November, 2025
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RSF bomb children's hospital in Darfur, Sudan famine declared

The New Arab Staff
04 November, 2025
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Sudan: Red Cross 'horrified' after volunteers killed in Kordofan

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
28 October, 2025
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African Union will 'not recognise' RSF's parallel govt in Sudan

The New Arab Staff & Agencies
30 July, 2025