Sudan and South Sudan - Security Council, 10077th meeting

Sudan’s ‘internationalized’ conflict could spill into Chad, South Sudan, Ethiopia, Security Council warned.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / Security Council
• Video Length: 02:22:32
• Production Date: 22 December 2025
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Personal Subject: MOHAMED KHALED KHIARI; EDEM WOSORNU
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA; UNITED NATIONS INTERIM SECURITY FORCE FOR ABYEI - UNISFA; DEPARTMENT OF PEACE OPERATIONS - DPO; DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND PEACEBUILDING AFFAIRS - DPPA
• Subject Topical: HEALTH CARE; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; VIOLENCE; HUMANITARIAN CRISIS; DISPLACED PERSONS; REFUGEE CAMPS; CONFLICT; SUDAN SITUATION
• Geographic Subject: SUDAN; SOUTH SUDAN
• MAMS Id: 3521560
• Parent Id: 3518682
• Alternate Title: MTG SC 10077 SUDAN SOUTH SUDAN 22 DEC 2025 PM

Description

As the flames of war continue to engulf Sudan, the Security Council today was urged to prevent the horrors of this conflict from recurring and stop those enabling the violence from spreading instability further across the region.

“Each passing day brings staggering levels of violence and destruction,” said Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations. Reporting that the conflict has recently centred on the Kordofan region, he said that the Rapid Support Forces captured the town of Babanusa on 1 December and the Heglig oil field on 8 December. Kadugli and Dilling, both in South Kordofan, are now under siege. He also pointed to the reported movement of armed groups across the border between Sudan and South Sudan in both directions, “with potentially destabilizing effects for both countries”.

• Briefer: Mr. Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific
• Briefer: Ms. Edem Wosornu, Director, Crisis Response Division, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
• Briefer: Mr. Cameron Hudson, Independent analyst and consultant on African security, governance and geopolitics
• Statements: All Council members, with Algeria speaking on behalf of: Algeria, Guyana, Sierra Leone, Somalia
• Statement: His Excellency Kamil El-Tayeb Idris, Transitional Prime Minister, Sudan
• Statements: Türkiye, Egypt, United Arab Emirates

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