Timeline of the Sudanese civil war (2025)

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The following is a timeline of the Sudanese civil war (2023–present) in 2025.

This timeline is a dynamic and fluid list, and as such may never satisfy criteria of completeness. Moreover, some events may only be fully understood and/or discovered in retrospect.

January

1 January

The Joint Darfur Force (JDF) said it had killed 462 Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters including six commanders in a failed attack on Al-Malha, North Darfur. In addition, three vehicles were destroyed. The remaining unit under Ali Rizqallah Al-Safana retreated. The JDF also called on the RSF to surrender to the JDF or the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF).

2 January

The SAF claimed that RSF brigadier general Ibrahim Delib was killed along with 32 RSF fighters, including a Mauritanian national, after a drone being launched by the group misfired in El Fasher.

4 January

Two people were killed by RSF shelling on the Saudi Hospital in El Fasher. Four others were killed by RSF shelling in Omdurman.

5 January

Ten people were killed in an SAF airstrike in Khartoum.

The SAF and the JDF claimed to have deflected an RSF assault on El Fasher that came from the east and southeast of the city. The JDF also intercepted a weapons convoy for the RSF, arresting both Sudanese and Libyan nationals.

7 January

The United States officially declared that the RSF had committed genocide and imposed sanctions on Hemedti.

The SAF retook the administrative center of Ombadda as well as Al-Shagla and the western section of the Al-Fitaihab neighborhood of Omdurman from the RSF. It also claimed to have freed three captive officers in Al-Fitaihab in a special operation that left more than 20 RSF militants dead, including a commander.

Four people were killed in an SAF airstrike on the Fata Borno IDP camp in Kutum, North Darfur.

8 January

The SAF retook the town of Haj Abdallah in Gezira State, 58 kilometers from Wad Madani, and the village of Mahalla, 13 kilometers from Wad Madani, from the RSF.

9 January

The SAF retook the town of Al-Shabarqa in Gezira State, 13 kilometers east of Wad Madani, from the RSF.

10 January

The SAF retook the town of Um al-Qura in Gezira State, 40 kilometers east of Wad Madani, from the RSF, while the SAF-allied Sudan Shield Forces retook Wad al-Abyad, 20 kilometres from the Hantoub bridge.

11 January

The SAF retook Wad Madani, the capital of Gezira State.

Sixteen people were killed by RSF shelling on the Zamzam IDP camp in North Darfur.

12 January

The SAF retook the Al-Rawad residential complex in Khartoum from the RSF.

13 January

At least 120 people were killed by shelling in western Omdurman.

The Merowe Dam power station was damaged by RSF drones, causing a fire at the facility and power outages as far as Shendi, Port Sudan, Atbara and Omdurman.

The SAF retook Karkaraia and Hajar al-Jawad, on the road between Dalang and Kadugli in South Kordofan, from the SPLM-N (al-Hilu).

Thirteen people were killed by the SAF and allied militias in an attack on the informal settlement of Kambo Tayba in Gezira State.

14 January

The JDF claimed to have killed hundreds of RSF militants, destroyed 262 vehicles, and captured 21 militants and 67 vehicles during clashes in Al-Malha and Halaf in North Darfur.

At least 18 people were killed in attacks by the Sudan Shield Forces on the Shukaba camp and Camp 16 in Gezira State.

15 January

At least 120 people were killed in an RSF attack on a civilian convoy being escorted by the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) and the Gathering of Sudan Liberation Forces (GSLF) near Kabkabiya, North Darfur.

Nine people were killed in attacks by the SAF and the RSF on members of the Kanabi community, who mostly originate from Darfur, in Abu Gouta, Gezira State. Fifteen people were killed in an RSF attack on the village of Al-Khizan in Abu Gouta.

16 January

Senior US officials reported that the SAF had recently used chemical weapons against the RSF in rural areas at least twice. The US also sanctioned SAF chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan for the army's conduct in the war.

The RSF said that it attacked fighters and vehicles in Kabkabiya belonging to the JDF between the SLM-Al Nur and the GSLF. The RSF called for a joint committee to investigate the incident.

18 January

At least 18 people were killed in an RSF attack on the village of Jebel Hilla in North Darfur.

Six drones struck the Al-Shawak power station in Gedaref State, injuring civil defence personnel and causing blackouts across the state and in Kassala State. Other drones hit the Gedaref state water station while another crashed near a bus station along the Gedaref-Kassala-Port Sudan highway.

The SAF reached the Al-Shukri junction in Shambat, Khartoum Bahri, while the RSF retreated by one kilometer southwards to the Hassan Ibrahim Malik University City. At least three people were killed by RSF shelling in Omdurman.

The RSF claimed to have taken Al-Hallaf, Drishaqi and Mao in North Darfur.

20 January

At least 11 people were killed by RSF shelling on the Abu Shouk IDP camp in El Fasher.

A coalition of SAF and allied forces claimed to have repelled two RSF incursions in North Darfur near the tri-border area with Chad and Libya, killing a total of over 950 fighters, destroying 61 vehicles, and capturing 78 others that were equipped with advanced weaponry.