Twenty-seven people, including four children, were killed in attacks in two areas of Sudan's South Kordofan state, according to a local medical group on the date of August 25, 2026. The Sudan Doctors Network attributed the attacks to the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North, or SPLM-N, an ally of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.
The network said the violence caused a large movement of civilians toward Abu Hitan and Kadugli. It did not provide, in the supplied report, a detailed breakdown of casualties by location, the names of those killed or a figure for the newly displaced population. The casualty account therefore remained an attributed report from the medical organization rather than an independently verified final toll.
The Sudan Doctors Network alleged that unarmed civilians had been targeted on ethnic grounds. It described such attacks as a violation of international humanitarian law and warned that continued violence could turn the conflict in South Kordofan into a broader ethnic confrontation. Those were the network's characterization and warning; the supplied evidence did not include an independent investigation establishing motive.
The organization called on rights groups and the international community to pressure the SPLM-N to stop its attacks. It also sought unimpeded delivery of humanitarian assistance to affected communities. The SPLM-N had not responded to the network's statement by the time of the report, leaving no account from the group accused of carrying out the violence.
South Kordofan is part of a wider conflict zone. Since October 2025, South, North and West Kordofan states had experienced intense fighting between Sudan's army on one side and the RSF and SPLM-N on the other. Tens of thousands of people were reported displaced across those areas. The source did not supply a more precise regional displacement total.
The broader war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the RSF began in April 2023. United Nations and other international estimates cited in the report put overall displacement at roughly 13 million people and deaths in the tens of thousands. Those national figures described the scale of the war and were separate from the 27 deaths newly reported in South Kordofan.
As of August 25, key elements still required verification: the exact sites of the two attacks, the identities of the victims, the number of people forced to flee and the sequence of events. The available source supported a carefully attributed account of the medical network's allegations, the lack of an immediate SPLM-N response and the humanitarian concern. It did not support treating the allegations about targeting or motive as adjudicated facts.
