North Darfur State (Arabic: ولاية شمال دارفور Wilāyat Šamāl Dārfūr; Shamal Darfor) is one of the wilayat or states of Sudan. It is one of the five states composing the Darfur region. It has an area of 296,420 km 2 and an estimated population of approximately 2,304,950 in 2018. Al-Fashir is the capital of the state.

4 days ago · At least 70 people were killed after a drone strike targeted the last functioning hospital in the besieged capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state late Friday, according to local officials and the ...

Dec 14, 2023 · Escalating violence across the Darfur region in Sudan has sparked fears that the atrocities committed two decades ago could be repeated. A boy walks in the Al Salaam camp for displaced people in...

As an administrative region, Darfur is divided into five federal states: Central Darfur, East Darfur, North Darfur, South Darfur and West Darfur. Because of the War in Darfur between Sudanese government forces and the indigenous population, the region has been in a state of humanitarian emergency and genocide since 2003.

NORTH DARFUR Demography The population of North Darfur state is 2,827,155 people (1,392,545 women and 1,434,610 men)1. There are 1.3 million children (aged 0 -18) in North Darfur, and 631,696 youth (aged 18-24). The vast majority of the population has significant humanitarian and development needs. The major ethnic groups are the Berti, Fur,

North Darfur State occupies more than half of the Darfur territory. It has borders with Northern, North Kordofan, West Kordofan, East Darfur, South Darfur, Central Darfur, and West Darfur states and shares international borders with Chad and Libya. Its state capital is El Fasher town.

Aug 1, 2024 · ROME/NEW YORK/PORT SUDAN, 1 August 2024 – After more than 15 months of war in Sudan, a catastrophic combination of conflict, displacement and humanitarian access constraints has resulted in famine in a camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur Region.

Dec 20, 2024 · United Nations human rights chief Volker Türk is calling for an end to the siege of El Fasher in Sudan's North Darfur state, which has resulted in hundreds of civilian deaths and injuries, and...

North Darfur State (Arabic: ولاية شمال دارفور Wilāyat Šamāl Dārfūr; Shamal Darfor) is one of the wilayat or states of Sudan. It is one of the five states composing the Darfur region. It has an area of 296,420 km 2 and an estimated population of approximately 2,304,950 in 2018. Al-Fashir is the capital of the state.

North Darfur State occupies more than half of the Darfur territory. Bordering Chad and Libya, it includes parts of the mountainous Jabal Marrah region to the south.