Sudan: Is Kordofan facing a “campaign of ethnic cleansing”?

Thick smoke rises vertically into the sky, forming a circle above it, after munitions were fired by an Antonov aircraft belonging to the army in Port Sudan at the Umm Qarfah area in Sudan’s North Kordofan State a week ago.

In this context, Taha Abu Bakr, a leader of the Partners for Change and Future Alliance, confirmed that “the army is using internationally banned chemical weapons against civilians,” noting that the most recent documented cases occurred in the Umm Qarfah area of North Kordofan State “the day before yesterday.

In a statement on June 30, 2026, the Emergency Lawyers Group said that “an army aircraft dropped barrel bombs on the areas of Umm Dubaib and al-Zaraf, north of the Umm Badr locality in North Kordofan State, injuring dozens of civilians, including children and herders, in the Umm Dubaib area while they were near a water source, in addition to the deaths of large numbers of livestock.