Autonomy and Indigenous self-government

Darfur self-government projects: current status

Where the question stood on 22 September 2026: Darfur remains part of Sudan but is the site of an active, extremely severe civil war, with the RSF controlling most of the region.

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Status verified as of 22 September 2026. Political positions change; this explainer describes the documented position on that date.

Current position

Darfur remains part of Sudan but is the site of extremely active, severe armed conflict amid Sudan's wider 2023-present civil war, with the Rapid Support Forces controlling most of the region as of late 2025 and documented genocide determinations by named international bodies. This bundle does not adjudicate these determinations, the war's combatants' legitimacy, or the political status of any RSF parallel-government initiative.[1]

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    Claim: Since the Sudanese civil war began on 15 April 2023, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) came to control most of Darfur, including the October 2025 capture of El Fasher in North Darfur; the United Nations has estimated more than 40,000 deaths as of February 2026 from the wider conflict, with aid organisations suggesting the true toll could be considerably higher, and more than 12 million people displaced nationally, alongside famine declared in parts of Darfur and Kordofan. In January 2025, then-US Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined that genocide was being perpetrated in Darfur by the RSF and allied militias, targeting Fur, Zaghawa and Masalit communities; in early 2025, RSF leadership also advanced a parallel-government initiative. This bundle presents all casualty, displacement and genocide-determination figures as attributed to named bodies, not independently verified or adjudicated by this bundle, and does not narrate the war's specific incidents, atrocities, or the RSF parallel-government initiative's legitimacy in detail.

    • Civil War in Sudan (Council on Foreign Relations Global Conflict Tracker) link, RSF territorial control, casualty figures and 2025 genocide determination sections. Source record

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