A cross-sectional community based study was conducted in Nyala Town among displaced and settlement women in Nyala locality to compare the epidemiological burden of diabetes .This study aimed to measure the prevalence of diabetes among study population and to determine most risk factors associated with the disease. The stratified random sampling was used with a sample size (490); of whom (359) settlement women and (131) displaced women. Data was collected by interview and questionnaire also the laboratory examination of diabetes. Data was analyzed and displayed in tables The study results concluded the following: - out of 490 women examined, 117 of blood samples were positive for diabetes which constituted a prevalence rate of 23.9% .The prevalence rate for settlement women was 28.1 % and displaced women was 12.2% , (p value 0.000) . The most of the risk factors of the diabetes were found to be 49.6% of diabetic women have family history of diabetes (p value = 0.000) ,15.9% of diabetic women were smokers (p value = 0.024) and 25.7% of diabetic women were eating meat and its fat (p value =0.027).The study recommended the planning and implementation of effective health education programs to increase the awareness of people about diabetes and its controllable risk factors , early diagnosis and treatment maintenance of normal body weight , physical exercise and complication of disease to decrease of disability . providing the treatment of diabetes and clinics for examination.