The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office advises against all travel to Sudan because of the ongoing military conflict in Khartoum and other parts of the country. The only carve-out is the Hala'ib Triangle and the Bir Tawil Trapezoid, remote northern zones where the FCDO advises against all but essential travel. That advice is current and was last updated on 11 May 2026, so for any protective purpose the country is a nationwide exclusion.
The scale behind the ban is set out by UN News, reporting on 10 April 2026 as the war entered its fourth year. Around 14 million people, a quarter of the population, have been forced to flee: 9 million displaced inside Sudan and 4.4 million across borders, mainly into Chad, South Sudan and Egypt. Some 21 million people face acute food insecurity, of whom 6.3 million are in the most severe emergency category, and more than 40 percent of the population needs urgent health assistance. The war began on 15 April 2023. In 2025 alone a record 11,300 civilians were killed, and the World Health Organization verified more than 200 attacks on healthcare across the three-year conflict, causing 2,052 deaths.
For teams the country itself is out of scope, but the second-order effects are not. The cross-border displacement into Chad, South Sudan and Egypt reshapes the risk picture on Sudan's borders, and the collapse of the health system means any regional planning cannot lean on Sudanese medical infrastructure. This is a standing exclusion whose reach is regional, not just national.
