The difficult and dangerous environment for media work and reporting in general has led to significant underreporting of security incidents in Sudan; as such this paragraph should be read in conjunction with section 1.1.4 Security incidents and civilian deaths estimates and section 1.3.2 Communication and media presence.
Among the 367 security events (battles, explosions/remote violence and violence against civilians) reported by ACLED in the Kordofans between 1 February to the end of November 2024, 158 were coded as battles, 67 as explosions/remote violence and 142 as violence against civilians. In 166 instances, civilians were the primary or only target. Security incidents were recorded across all Kordofan states, with about 41 % in North Kordofan, 31 % in West Kordofan and 27 % in South Kordofan. An additional 24 security events were recorded in Abyei, many of them ethnically motivated attacks mostly recorded in February 2024.798
Figure 10: Evolution of security events coded as battles, explosions/remote violence and violence against civilians in Kordofan region, 1 February 2024 – 30 November 2024, based on ACLED data799