South Kordofan conflict

Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile
Part of the
Military situation in Sudan on 2 November 2016.   Under control of the Sudanese Government and allies   Under control of the Sudan Revolutionary Front and allies   Under control of the Sudanese Awakening Revolutionary Council For a more detailed map of the current military situation in Sudan, see .
Date 5 June 2011 (2011-06-05) – present (6 years and 4 months) Location South Kordofan and Blue Nile in Sudan; spillover into South Sudan Status Ongoing Intertwined with the War in Darfur
Belligerents
Sudan SAF	SRF SPLM-N SLA JEM Alleged support:  Ethiopia  South Sudan
Commanders and leaders
Omar al-Bashir Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein Mustafa Osman Obeid Salim Ibrahim Balandiya †	Abdelaziz al-Hilu Gibril Ibrahim Khalil Ibrahim † Malik Agar Yasir Arman Minni Minnawi Abdul Wahid al Nur Mohamed Rahouma †
Units involved
Sudanese Armed Forces Popular Defence Forces Rapid Support Forces	SLA Abdul Wahid faction Minni Minawi faction Second Revolution faction
Strength
SAF: 109,300 RSF: 17,500	SPLM-N: 45,000 JEM: 35,000
Casualties and losses
600–650 killed 179 confirmed captured 405 vehicles destroyed 746 vehicles captured 2,530 (2013–2014 in Blue Nile)	704 killed
Total: c. 643–1,500 killed 500,000 displaced

Ongoing

 Sudan

SRF

Sudanese Armed Forces

SLA

600–650 killed
179 confirmed captured
405 vehicles destroyed
746 vehicles captured

The Sudanese conflict in South Kordofan and Blue Nile, also referred to by some media as the Third Sudanese Civil War, is an ongoing armed conflict in the Sudanese southern states of South Kordofan and Blue Nile between the Army of Sudan (SAF) and Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), a northern affiliate of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in South Sudan. After some years of relative calm following the 2005 deal which ended the second Sudanese civil war between the Sudanese government and SPLM rebels, fighting broke out again in the lead-up to South Sudan independence on 9 July 2011, starting in South Kordofan on 5 June and spreading to the neighboring Blue Nile state in September. SPLM-N, splitting from newly-independent SPLM, took up arms against the inclusion of the two southern states in Sudan with no popular consultation and against the lack of democratic elections. The conflict is intertwined with the War in Darfur, since in November 2011 SPLM-N established a loose alliance with Darfuri rebels, called Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF).