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A year of civil war between paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the government has displaced millions of Sudanese, the United Nations says. Much of the violence is taking place in the long-suffering Darfur region - where ordinary people are paying the price. Nathaniel Raymond, director of the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab, is interviewed for this report.

A civil war is ripping apart Sudan, one of Africa’s largest countries. Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab is monitoring the situation closely.

Sudan's El Fasher region was home to more than 800,000 internally displaced people before it came under siege by rebel paramilitaries. The city has become a symbol of the country’s suffering during Sudan's latest military conflict. Nathaniel Raymond, director of the Yale School of Public Health's Humanitarian Research Lab, provides insight into the humanitarian crisis.

The intensification of the conflict in Sudan will have further devastating consequences for civilians and demands urgent public health advocacy aligned with government calls for ceasefire, leaders of Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab say in this PLOS Commentary.

A new report by Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab has identified an Ilyushin (IL-76) flying within approximately 1.7 kilometers of Sudan's El-Fasher region over Rapid Support Forces’ territory. The same model of aircraft is reported to be used for lethal aid transfers by the United Arab Emirates to the RSF for flights to locations in Chad, the report says.

Nathaniel Raymond, director of YSPH's Humanitarian Research Lab, discusses the escalating humanitarian crises in Gaza and Sudan in this installment of Where We Live on Connecticut's WNPR public radio.

Hundreds of fresh graves have been discovered in the Darfur city of El Fasher, where Sudan's army and its enemy the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been locked in a weeks-long battle that has taken a heavy toll on civilians and destroyed large swaths of the city. The graves were identified in an analysis of satellite images by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab.

At least 134 people have been killed in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, since May 10 due to intense fighting. A report from YSPH's Humanitarian Research Lab confirmed “significant conflict-related damage in El Fasher city between 10 – 14 May.”

The threat of invasion darkens the daily struggle for life in El Fasher, the main city in Sudan’s western Darfur region and the last major urban center still under the army’s control. Nathaniel Raymond, executive director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale’s School of Public Health, calls the current situation "a kill box."