PORT SUDAN: More than 10,000 people were forced to flee their homes in western and southern Sudan over just three days this week, according to the United Nations' migration agency. Since April 2023, Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a deadly conflict described by the UN as a "war of atrocities," causing tens of thousands of deaths and uprooting over 11 million people. Between December 25 and 26, attacks hit the villages of Um Baru and Kernoi near Sudan's border with Chad, displacing over 7,000 people, said the International Organization for Migration. After capturing El-Fasher in North Darfur in October, the RSF has advanced westward into areas controlled by an army-backed militia of the Zaghawa ethnic group. On Friday, an RSF drone struck the Chadian border town of Tine, killing two Chadian soldiers, a Chadian military source told AFP. Additionally, between Christmas Eve and Friday, more than 3,100 people fled Kadugli in South Kordofan. This famine-hit city has been under siege by paramilitary forces for over 18 months. Currently, the resource-rich Kordofan region sees fierce fighting as the RSF and allies try to regain control of Sudan’s central corridor, running from Darfur toward the capital Khartoum. This violent conflict has caused the world’s largest hunger and displacement crisis and split Sudan. The army holds the north, east, and center. The RSF controls all five Darfur state capitals and some southern parts with allies.