During the reference period, the SAF regained full control over White Nile state, driving the RSF out from their areas of control along the state’s northern border with North Kordofan and Khartoum states.1063 While at the start of May 2025 the RSF were reported to still hold positions west of Al-Duwaym,1064 later that same month the SAF reported to have gained control of the entire state.1065 A map provided by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies showed White Nile state under complete control of the SAF as of the start of July 2026, with presence of SAF and allied Sudanese Popular Resistance/Mustanfareen.1066 In November 2025, a troop build-up of SAF-allied groups such as the SSF and the Al-Baraa Bin Malik Brigade was reported in Al-Duwaym city and the Al-Alqa area.1067
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Sudan Tribune, Sudanese army retakes towns from RSF in White Nile state, Omdurman areas, 3 May 2025, url
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Ayin Network et al., Sudan Conflict Monitor # 20, 26 May 2025, url, p. 3
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Africa Center for Strategic Studies, Mapping the Armed Actors in the Sudan Conflict [Map], 7 July 2026, url
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Ayin Network, Analysis: Sudan’s Kordofan War, the fiercest front lines, 28 November 2025, url