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Sudan tops a global crisis map where ceasefire paperwork no longer matches battlefield reality
Sudan's army-RSF war grinds on with no ceasefire, after a UN fact-finding mission (February 2026) determined the RSF committed genocide in and around El Fasher. In Lebanon, an April ceasefire exists on paper while WHO counts 608 killed since it took effect and over 1.2 million displaced since March. The Iran war re-escalated in July after the Islamabad Memorandum collapsed: Hormuz traffic runs at roughly 15 transits daily versus 110 pre-war. Yemen's 2022 truce broke in July with the Jabal Dabbas attack, and IOM reports fresh west-coast displacement with cholera fears.
The pattern across these fronts is formal agreements outliving their enforcement. That gap now transmits: choked Hormuz traffic and a Houthi attack capability intact despite the pause since September 2025 both raise Red Sea shipping costs, feeding into FAO food prices that hit 133.3 in August 2026 — a squeeze landing on Yemen's 18.3 million acutely food-insecure and Sudan's 33.7 million people needing assistance. Collapsed currencies in Iran (+4125 percent), Sudan, and Yemen mean imports are priced in dollars populations cannot earn. Famine risk in Burkina Faso's besieged Djibo compounds the picture.
Watch items
- Sudan — RSF El Obeid siege and drone strikes on civilians
- Yemen — Cholera among west-coast civilians fleeing renewed combat
- Lebanon — Israeli ground operations expanding beyond ceasefire lines