By Ingrid "Shortwave" Frost
El OBEID, Sudan — Sudan's war has a new front, and civilians are paying for it the way they always do: by walking away from home with whatever they can carry.
The United Nations says more than 200,000 people have been newly displaced in Sudan's Kordofan region as fighting intensifies, with power and water infrastructure in El Obeid now coming under direct attack, according to Al Jazeera. The details on exactly who controls what ground, and how the infrastructure strikes are being carried out, remain thin in initial reporting — a gap worth naming rather than papering over.
What is clear is the scale of the exodus. Sudan's civil war, now well into its third year, has already produced one of the world's largest displacement crises, uprooting millions from Khartoum, Darfur and beyond. Kordofan's collapse adds another wave to a catastrophe that has largely fallen out of the daily headlines even as it grinds on.
Aid agencies operating in the region have repeatedly warned that attacks on water and power systems compound the humanitarian toll well beyond the immediate violence, cutting off hospitals, pumping stations and food storage. This report is based on a single wire account; further detail on casualty figures, the parties responsible for the infrastructure strikes, and the UN's response was not available at time of filing.
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— Compiled from reporting by Al Jazeera.
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