Due to Improved Security Situation, Two Million Sudanese Back Home in Less Than a Year

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), a United Nations Agency, has revealed that the number of displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees returning to their homes in Sudan has risen to more than two million people in less than a year.

Sudan recorded its highest number of displaced persons last January, with 11,585,384, before their numbers gradually declined after the army recaptured the states of Sennar, Al-Gezira, and Khartoum, as well as other areas in the White Nile and North Kordofan states.

The IOM said, in a statement, that “an estimated 2,004,302 people returned to their areas of origin between November 2024 and July 2025.”

It indicated that 1.9 million returnees backed to their localities of origin, either to their homes or to other forms of shelter, while the rest returned to their states or localities, but not to their specific locations of origin.

The organization reported that more than 1.5 million individuals returned from within the country, while more than 455,000 returned from outside Sudan. They all returned to 1,611 locations in 39 localities in six states.

It explained that 48% of the total returnees reverted to Al-Gezira, while 30% arrived in Khartoum, 9% in Sennar, 7% in Blue Nile, and 5% in White Nile. River Nile and West Darfur received 1% each.

Only 587,000 individuals returned to Khartoum State, from which 3.7 million people fled the brutality of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) before the army recaptured it last March.