'Whole bloodlines' have been lost in Sudan but the world isn't watching

Nidal Saeed checks her phone for updates from her cousin in Sudan. (ABC News: West Matteeussen)

Fourteen million people have been displaced, more than 33 million need humanitarian aid, at least 150,000 are dead and horrific atrocities and massacres occur frequently.

Human rights groups have reported these statistics and say sexual violence has become part of daily life for women and girls.

Those same groups have called Sudan a "forgotten war" while others say it's been neglected.

"I'm referring to this as an abandoned crisis," Denise Brown, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan, told reporters in April.

A massacre took place in El-Fasher, in the Darfur region, last October. (ABC News)

For Sudanese Australians the conflict may be thousands of kilometres away but it is also lighting up their phones and keeping them up at night.

"It's heartbreaking. We don't sleep. We don't eat," Nidal Saeed told 7.30.

Ms Saeed is now in Perth and frequently checks for updates from her cousin in Sudan, who has fled the fighting.

"I love when I hear voice recordings because it just puts my heart at rest to hear his voice. But one day I could wake up and I could get nothing," Ms Saeed said.

"There's a lot of grief, a lot of heartbreak in our community right now, and we just feel like there's not enough focus, not enough awareness and attention. We've been overshadowed. We've been neglected."

The current conflict stems from a brutal power struggle between two former allies: Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces, and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, who commands the Rapid Support Forces.

Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is head of the Sudanese Armed Forces, which is at war with Sudan's Rapid Support Forces. (Getty Images)

Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo is the leader of the Rapid Support Forces. (Getty Images: Mahmoud Hjaj)

Both sides have been accused of committing war crimes — both sides deny those allegations.

Journalists cannot get independent access to Sudan, but videos shared online paint a horrifying picture.

A video posted by a RSF-aligned Telegram account shows the aftermath on the outskirts of El-Fasher. (Supplied)

A massacre that took place in El-Fasher, in Sudan's Darfur region last October, was captured in satellite images.

A Reuters investigation found widespread evidence of RSF fighters killing unarmed people, as their commanders stood by.

Reade Levinson spent months on this investigation, meeting survivors who made it across the border to Chad.

"There was one story in particular that stuck out to me. One of the commanders, Abu