Rangers in Sudan: FBR Documentaries on Recent Ranger Missions to Sudan
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Below are two short documentaries, created by Rangers, that cover two recent FBR relief missions to Sudan, where the need is greater than ever. The goals of these missions were to train local Rangers, offer frontline support, and distribute aid to IDP groups displaced by the conflict in Sudan, where over 32 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance.
The Free Burma Rangers first traveled to Sudan in 2014, when Dave Eubank received a request for aid from the people of the Nuba Mountains, who were facing heavy attacks and displacement by the Sudanese Armed Forces. The team brought the FBR model of help, hope, and love through medical care, humanitarian relief, children’s programs, and training for local Nuba Ranger teams that was first developed in Burma. They traveled to displaced communities hiding in difficult and dangerous areas, at times during active bombing, to provide aid and encouragement. Sudan became one of the first places where the Free Burma Rangers expanded their mission internationally. The Rangers applied their experience of helping people in Burma to the community of IDPs in the Nuba Mountains.
2025 - Return to the Nuba Mountains
In June 2025, the Free Burma Rangers traveled back to Sudan’s Nuba Mountains for the first time in years, responding to the renewed civil war and growing displacement in the region. Rangers traveled into remote frontline areas of Delami County, working alongside local Nuba chaplains to provide first-aid and trauma-care training, medical assistance, Good Life Clubs for displaced children, relief to IDP communities, and encouragement to wounded veterans and frontline families. They also documented conditions and strengthened relationships with local leaders and chaplains. A major focus for the Rangers on mission was demonstrating forgiveness and reconciliation, particularly as Nuba communities were sheltering people who were displaced from groups that had previously oppressed the Nuba people. Rangers left Sudan with plans to return the following year.
2026 - Ranger Response to the Siege of Kadugli
Rangers returned to the Nuba Mountains for a second mission, this time pushing deeper toward the besieged city of Kadugli. The team trained and graduated 24 new Free Sudan Rangers, then traveled with them through remote communities and displacement corridors toward the frontlines. Along the way, they conducted five Good Life Club programs, distributed relief supplies and financial assistance, treated patients, and trained over 200 chaplains, medics, emergency responders, and local leaders in lifesaving care. Rangers reached positions overlooking Kadugli, where civilians were struggling to escape the siege, and families were being separated as they fled through the mountains. Rangers shared the Gospel with over 4,000 people, treated 50 patients, and offered assistance to widows, orphans, clinics, fighters, and displaced communities in their areas of operation.
Please pray for the people of Sudan as they continue to face the worsening conflict, famine, and displacement. The Free Burma Rangers are grateful for the ways we have been able to train, support, and love the people of Sudan.
Thanks and God bless,
The Free Burma Rangers
