US EditionWar-displaced Sudanese return to shattered Khartoum eager to rebuild lives and homes
About 1.2 million Sudanese have returned to Khartoum since December 2024, confronting destroyed infrastructure and scarce basic services amid ongoing insecurity.
- On Aug. 15, 2025, Afaf El-Tayeb returned to a charred, looted home in Khartoum, Sudan after the Sudanese Armed Forces recaptured the capital, joining roughly 1.2 million returnees this year.
- Since April 2023, the Sudan conflict has displaced more than 12 million people and created 3.2 million refugees, with Khartoum as the epicenter of deadly fighting that killed over 40,000.
- AP reporting found returnees confronting looting and theft, including buried gold and household possessions taken, while more than 60 power transfer stations were damaged and Khartoum hospitals and clinics stripped of beds and equipment.
- Local volunteers and young men in Khartoum have been clearing neighborhoods this month, while Khartoum Aid Kitchen continues feeding many, having served around 4,000 daily, as officials prioritize restoring electricity and water pumps.
- Experts warn donor hesitation and renewed attack risks may complicate reconstruction as Khartoum provincial government faces a reconstruction cost of billions of dollars and growing organized crime risk.
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Displaced families return to Khartoum amid ruins and scarce services
Khartoum was the epicenter of fighting at the start of the war, but the army said it had recaptured the capital earlier this year, including important landmarks such as the airport and ministerial buildings.
War-displaced Sudanese return to shattered Khartoum eager to rebuild lives, homes
KHARTOUM, Sudan — All that remains of Afaf al-Tayeb’s home in Sudan’s Khartoum province is a charred, windowless structure with peeling paint — yet in June, she eagerly returned, feeling safe again for the first time since the Sudanese army said it retook the capital from the rival Rapid Support Forces. Al-Tayeb had been displaced with her son Mohamed al-Khedr and their family at least four times since the civil war in the North African nation b…
War-displaced Sudanese return to shattered Khartoum eager to rebuild
KHARTOUM: All that remains of Afaf Al-Tayeb’s home in Sudan’s Khartoum province is a charred, windowless structure with peeling paint – yet in June, she eagerly returned, feeling safe again for the first time since the Sudanese army said it retook the capital from the rival Rapid Support Forces. Al-Tayeb had been displaced with her son Mohamed Al-Khedr and their family at
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War-displaced Sudanese return to shattered Khartoum eager to rebuild lives and homes
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