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Paramilitary forces drone strike kills at least five near Sudan capital: rights group

May 3, 2026 admin

Khartoum has largely been spared attacks by the RSF since it was recaptured by the Sudanese Armed Forces last year, but the capital has recently seen sporadic strikes. File | Photo Credit: AFP Sudan’s paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), killed at least five people in a drone attack that hit a civilian vehicle…

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Outages in Sudan after major drone attack hits power plant

December 18, 2025 admin

Sudan paramilitaries launched a large-scale drone attack in the east on Thursday (December 18, 2025), a military source told AFP, with strikes hitting a key power station, causing major outages and killing three. Since April 2023, Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a conflict that has killed tens…

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Sudan’s top General rejects U.S. led ceasefire proposal, calling it ’the worst yet’

November 24, 2025 admin

Sudan’s General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Sudan’s top General rejected a ceasefire proposal provided by U.S. led mediators as “the worst yet,” in a blow to efforts to stop a devastating war that has gripped the African country for over 30 months. It created the world’s largest humanitarian crisis with over…

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Agents of death: Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces

November 8, 2025 admin

File picture of Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) unit, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, secure the area where Dagalo attends a military-backed tribe’s rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan. | Photo Credit: AP ‘Women and girls are being raped, people being mutilated and…

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UAE supplying weapons to Rapid Support Forces: Sudanese Ambassador to India Eltom

November 3, 2025 admin

This image grab taken from handout video footage released on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Telegram account on October 26, 2025, shows RSF fighters holding weapons and celebrating in the streets of El-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur. | Photo Credit: FP Sudan is not in a state of civil war and is confronting attacks from…

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Sudan’s RSF shells hospital, abducts 8 in El-Fasher: rescuers

August 24, 2025 admin

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces shelled a hospital in North Darfur’s besieged city of El-Fasher. File | Photo Credit: AP Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces shelled a hospital in North Darfur’s besieged city of El-Fasher and abducted six women and two children from a nearby displacement camp, rescuers and a medic said on Sunday (August…

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Paramilitary group attacks open market in Sudan, killing 54 people, wounding scores

February 2, 2025 admin

Representational image only. File | Photo Credit: AP An attack on an open market in the Sudanese city of Omdurman by a paramilitary group killed 54 people and wounded at least 158, health authorities said on Saturday (February 1, 2025.) The attack by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the Sabrein Market was the latest…

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Attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces in Darfur raise possibility of ‘genocide’ against non-Arab ethnic communities: Human Rights Watch

May 9, 2024 admin

Sudanese refugees who fled the violence in Sudan’s Darfur region and newly arrived ride their donkeys looking for space to temporarily settle, near the border between Sudan and Chad in Goungour, Chad. File | Photo Credit: Reuters “A series of attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces in the western region of Darfur raise the possibility of…

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Draft UN resolution calls for cease-fire in conflict-torn Sudan during upcoming Muslim holy month

March 7, 2024 admin

A file photo of Sudanese family who fled the conflict in Murnei in Sudan’s Darfur region. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Britain has circulated a draft United Nations (UN) resolution calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in conflict-wracked Sudan ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins soon. The draft, obtained on…

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