UNSC Holds Closed-Door Consultations on Sudan,Monday

New York – Sudanhorizon
Members of the Security Council are expected to hold closed-door consultations on Sudan today evening(Monday February 9), according to the official website of the UN Security Council reports indicated that the briefing to the Council is expected to be given by the Director of the Crisis Response Division at the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Edem Wosorno, and the Assistant Executive Director for Programme Operations at the World Food Programme, Matthew Hollingworth.
The United Kingdom, which holds the Sudan portfolio and is the Council President for this month, along with Bahrain and Denmark, the Council’s coordinators on conflict and hunger, requested the meeting following the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) alert on Sudan issued on February 5.
The alert raised concerns about the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Greater Darfur and Greater Kordofan regions. This follows the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) report issued in November 2025, which identified famine conditions in several conflict-affected areas of Sudan, including El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State, and Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan State.
The latest alert reported that famine stages leading to severe acute malnutrition have been crossed in two new areas of North Darfur, Um Baru and Karnoi, indicating a high risk of excess mortality and raising concerns that neighboring areas could face similar catastrophic conditions.
The alert also noted the advance of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) units in the areas surrounding Um Baru and Kernoi, forcing thousands of civilians to flee urban centers to rural areas within their own regions or towards the Chadian border.
Regarding El Fasher, the alert indicated that most civilians have either fled the city or died since late October 2025, when the RSF launched an offensive and subsequently seized control of large parts of the city, leaving fewer than 100,000 people trapped.
By the end of 2025, the total number of internally displaced persons from the El Fasher area had risen to an estimated 1.22 million.
The report warned that the humanitarian situation along the El Fasher-Tineh corridor towards Chad was likely to deteriorate further without an immediate cessation of hostilities and a large-scale humanitarian response, noting that preventable deaths had already occurred and were likely to increase without urgent action. The security situation in South Darfur State, particularly in and around the capital Nyala, was also deteriorating, with reports of civilian casualties continuing to emerge.

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