Zhizhin, MikhailZiv, KristinElvidge, ChristopherBazilian, Morgan2024-05-292024-05-292024-05-19https://hdl.handle.net/11124/179093https://doi.org/10.25676/11124/179093Payne Institute Earth Observation Group Research Associate Mikhail Zhizhin, Communications Associate Kristin Ziv, Senior Research Associate Christopher Elvidge, and Director Morgan Bazilian write about how a horrible full-scale civil war in Sudan is creating chaos, anarchy, mass starvation, and the world's largest population of internal refugees – approximately nine million.  The researchers have created a temporal profile of nighttime lights for Khartoum where seasonal variations in lights within a year can be seen, but the interannual radiance was stable until the conflict started in April 2023.commentariesengCopyright of the original work is retained by the authors.Text