The African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) would like to provide an update on the Tarsin Landslide that occurred in Jabel Marra in August 2025. We also want to acknowledge the quick responses from rescue teams and the humanitarian consortium, which included national and international partners. Additionally, we recognize the crucial role local communities played in responding to the crisis in its early stages.
At the national and local levels, the bodies that have responded to the crisis include civilian authorities in areas controlled by the Sudan Liberation Movement, led by Abdel Wahid Al-Nur, such as the Jabel Marra Emergency Committee, as well as civilians in villages near the incident site. In addition to the international organizations operating in Sudan, such as the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), the Medical Corps Organization, World Relief Organization, and the French Solidarity Organization, Save the Children cited a statement from their website: “In coordination with the Humanitarian Affairs Office in Darfur and UN OCHA, Save the Children dispatched an emergency team comprising 11 staff members, who traveled on donkeys to the mountain village of Tarsin from Golo. The journey, which lacked proper roads and featured rocky, muddy terrain, took over six hours.”
Following these efforts, the teams successfully extracted at least 373 deceased individuals from the rubble, confirmed Mr. Mohamed Alnair, spokesperson for the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) Abdul Wahid Noor faction, in a conversation with ACJPS. A press conference was held in Port Sudan, Sudan's capital, on September 6, 2025, to discuss this development.
Humanitarian aid has been kindly provided to over 1,000 people in Tarsin. This support includes medicines, rescue efforts for those who sustained injuries, plastic sheets for shelters, and nutritious food for children and pregnant women. The help also extended to residents living in the nearby villages, ensuring that everyone in the area receives the assistance they need.
Regrettably, the likelihood of discovering additional victims has decreased, as they may have been carried away by the rainwater responsible for the disaster. The incident continues to underscore the necessity of implementing early warning systems within the Jabel Marra region, as detailed in the previously published report by ACJPS concerning the incident.
The mission has attracted the attention of rapid response teams from humanitarian actors operating in Sudan, and the constructive collaborative role performed by SLA-Abdul Wahid Nur. ACJPS seeks to motivate both Sudanese conflicting parties and their allies to emulate this approach and ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians in El-Fasher, North Darfur, and Alfula, West Kordofan, where access remains restricted or obstructed due to the positions of the warring parties.