Ombadda has been affected by the Battle of Khartoum. In July 2023, the SAF airstrikes and shelling killed at least 16 people in Ombadda.^[2] There were reports of shelling in five housing blocks.^[3] In September 2023, 23 civilians were killed in airstrikes.^[4] The Ombada Emergency Response Room has given humanitarian aid.^[5]

In 2024, the situation in Ombadda became reportedly "uninhabitable" amid a sanitary crisis caused by the presence of decomposing corpses in the streets.^[6] In 2025, a graphic video emerged reportedly showing a civilian in Ombadda being shot by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) .^[7]

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