The Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group (RSF), which has been fighting Sudan’s military for more than a year, fired shots and looted a health facility in the western region of Darfur, an international aid group said. The RSF attacked the South Hospital in al-Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur province on Sunday, opening fire […]
CAIRO (AP) — At least 100 people were killed, and dozens were injured after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces attacked a village in Gezira province in Sudan on Wednesday, officials said. Women, children, and elderly were among the victims in the attacks by the Rapid Support Forces on Wad al-Noura village in Gezira, Mini Arko […]
CAIRO (AP) — More than two weeks of fighting between Sudan’s military and a notorious paramilitary group over a major city in the western Darfur region killed at least 123 people, an international aid group said Sunday. The fighting in el-Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur province, also wounded more than 930 people in […]
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The son of Sudan’s army chief, Abdel Fattah Burhan, has died in hospital on Friday two months after he was severely injured in a motorcycle accident in the Turkish capital, Ankara, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported. Mohammed Fattah Burhan Rahman was being treated at an Ankara hospital since the March 6 […]
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and her French counterpart Stéphane Séjourné have called on the international community to provide urgent support for Sudan at the start of an aid conference on the northeast African country in Paris. One year after civil war erupted in the country, the Sudanese had become victims of being forgetten, in […]
METCHE CAMP, Chad (AP) — Overcrowded refugee camps in eastern Chad are set to run out of money soon, exacerbating a dire humanitarian crisis caused by the spillover from a deadly conflict in Sudan, the United Nations said. More than a million people in Chad, including refugees, face losing access to lifesaving aid unless more […]
By El Tayeb Siddig OMDURMAN, Sudan (Reuters) – Some Sudanese residents cut off from mobile networks for weeks due to war between rival military factions are using Starlink satellite connections to access the internet, as regular coverage started to return to other parts of the country. The mobile blackout that began in early February has […]
At least 13 Sudanese migrants have died and 27 others are missing after their boat sank off Tunisia’s coast, a Tunisian official has said. Only two people on board survived, while search operations were under way for those missing, he added. It is the latest disaster to hit migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean from […]
Sudanese paramilitary leader General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo said he was committed to a ceasefire to end the devastating war that has wrecked his country. Gen Dagalo, leader of the Rapid Support Forces, was speaking following a meeting in Pretoria with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. He said he had briefed Mr Ramaphosa on the “considerable […]
DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) – The leader of Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo met on Monday with civilian pro-democracy politicians in Addis Ababa, the latest stop in a foreign tour as his troops take the upper-hand in a devastating nine-month war. The meeting comes as General Dagalo, known as Hemedti, has appeared to […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday said he has determined members of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have committed war crimes in Sudan. Bloodshed, violence and displacement escalated after fighting between the Sudanese army and RSF erupted in April, driving the country to the brink […]