Humanitarians warn of 10,000 displaced in Sudan by UAE-backed forces

A humanitarian medical agency has warned that the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have displaced 10,000 more people in Sudan. This time in the Blue Nile region. The area is close to Ethiopia, leading to concerns about the destabilising effects across borders.

Sudan Doctors Network posted on X on 1 April:

More than 10,000 displaced civilians, including women, children, and the elderly, have arrived today from Qissan province to Rosiers province. They are facing extremely dire humanitarian conditions, with severe shortages of food, medicine, and basic necessities of life.

Sudan Doctors Network Appeals to National and International Organizations for Urgent Intervention to Provide Aid to Over 10,000 Displaced People from Qissan to Rosiers in the Blue Nile Region

More than 10,000 displaced civilians, including women, children, and the elderly, have… pic.twitter.com/4rdILIoI0b

— Sudan Doctors Network – شبكة أطباء السودان (@SDN154) April 1, 2026

The organisation called on the UN to supply aid quickly:

The network warns of the worsening health and humanitarian conditions among the displaced, particularly due to the absence of medical services, the spread of diseases, and malnutrition.

Adding:

This situation threatens an imminent humanitarian catastrophe if urgent intervention is not made to provide relief and necessary healthcare.

Drone strikes in Sudan along Chad border

Meanwhile, government forces and the RSF have been hitting civilian targets with drones along the Sudan-Chad border. Doctors without Borders reported on 2 April:

Drone strikes carried out by Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied groups continue to hit civilian areas along the Sudanese border with Chad.

Rita Magano, medical project coordinator in Tine, Chad, said:

We have been working around the clock. Our team has supported Chad’s health authorities in treating 457 people in two months.

Adding:

Civilians were not spared from violence, with six children among the wounded.

But this isn’t just some far-off war. The UK’s conduct is at the heart of it.

UK’s fingerprints all over this genocide

The UK’s role in the three-year-old genocidal war in Sudan was exposed this week after a Guardian investigation showed how Britain downgraded its assessments.

The report found:

The UK seemingly abandoned El Fasher: reports predicting genocide apparently discarded; intelligence apparatus that should have prompted intervention were not updated throughout the 561-day siege.

As fighting had intensified, the UK removed Darfur’s original genocide – when 300,000 were slaughtered by the RSF’s Arab predecessors – from its list of recognised mass atrocities.

Why, you might ask? Well, according to one US source:

It was quickly clear the Starmer government did not want to piss off the Emiratis.

The war between Sudanese government forces and RSF has been raging since 2023. So far millions have been displaced and up to 150,000 killed. Several Gulf states, Egypt, Israel, UK, US and many other local and global powers are pursuing their own colonial interests in Sudan.

The UAE is a major British arms customer and Gulf ally of the former colonial power in Sudan. This means the UK is culpable for the genocide in Sudan, every bit as much as it is for the one in Gaza. And now the conflict is threatening to spill into Ethiopia and Chad.

Featured image via the Canary