Dozens of families who fled recent fighting in West and North Kordofan have arrived in Nyala in recent weeks to dire conditions, with some bedding down in public squares and open areas, residents and aid workers said.
Roughly 20 families are sheltering in the Neem Forest area and others in Al-Jabal neighborhood with little more than mats and blankets, according to people interviewed by Darfur24.
Somaya Al-Tahir, who left Bara in mid-September after the SAF and allied groups moved in, said her group rode a freight truck along the Bara–Al-Mazroub route for seven days. Another displaced person, Mohyeddin Sadiq, said the journey from Bara to Nyala now costs about 300,000 per passenger and that most arrivals “left everything behind” and need urgent aid.
Control of Bara has since changed hands again, with the Rapid Support Forces retaking the town after heavy fighting, part of a wider pattern of shifting lines across Kordofan.
The IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix estimates thousands have been uprooted in Kordofan amid worsening insecurity. Nyala has taken in nearly 20,000 displaced people so far this year, the Sudanese Relief and Humanitarian Operations Agency said, as local community groups organize food and shelter drives.
