An estimated 2.7 million people have returned to Khartoum since the army recaptured Sudan’s capital last year, but power and water can be out for days, medicine is scarce and many are unemployed; some returnees are sending their families abroad again.
By June, the UN had declared only 1% of Khartoum safe; booby-traps and unexploded shells had killed or injured dozens of children. The army reopened the airport for domestic flights and repaired some infrastructure, but occasional RSF drone strikes continue.
Fighting between the army and the RSF is still raging in Darfur, Kordofan and Blue Nile. In Khartoum, authorities ended remote learning in July and told university students to return. Medical professors at Khartoum University have threatened to resign en masse, while students say they are being forced back.
