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Amnesty report finds ethnic cleansing in Sudan. What does it reveal?

July 7, 2026 admin

In a report ‘City Under Siege, Children Under Fire: Rapid Support Forces’ Crimes Against Humanity in North Darfur’ released on July 1, Amnesty International concluded that Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed “crimes against humanity and carried out ethnic cleansing” during its campaign to seize El Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur state. Sudan has…

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UN issues ‘red alert’ over ‘catastrophe’ in Sudan’s El-Obeid

July 3, 2026 admin

UN rights chief Volker Turk issues a “red alert” on Friday (July 3, 2026) on the unfolding “catastrophe” in the Sudanese city of El-Obeid, where the United Nations fears an imminent paramilitary assault. Addressing an urgent debate at the UN Human Rights Council, Mr. Turk urged world leaders to take immediate action to prevent atrocity…

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Indian firm, CEO among entities sanctioned by U.S. for ‘fuelling’ civil war in Sudan

June 27, 2026 admin

The U.S. imposed sanctions on eight persons and entities, including an Indian national associated with an explosives manufacturing firm, for allegedly fuelling the civil war in Sudan. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday (June 26, 2026) said the targeted networks enabled both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the…

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Sudan drone strikes killed at least 880 civilians between January and April: UN

May 11, 2026 admin

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) Volker Turk | Photo Credit: AP At least 880 civilians were killed in drone strikes in Sudan between January and April this year, the UN rights office said on Monday (May 11, 2026), warning such strikes were pushing the conflict towards a “new, even deadlier phase”. Drone attacks…

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Sudan’s military accuses Ethiopia, UAE of drone attacks, recalls its ambassador

May 5, 2026 admin

File image of Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo. File | Photo Credit: AP The Sudanese government accused Ethiopia of being behind recent drone attacks on sites, including Khartoum airport, and recalled its ambassador on Tuesday (May 5, 2026). A Military Spokesperson in Sudan said the government…

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How a surgeon kept a Sudan hospital functioning on the war’s front line

April 28, 2026 admin

Dr. Jamal Eltaeb checks a patient at Al Nao Hospital in Omdurman, on the outskirts of Khartoum, on April 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: AP For three years, Dr. Jamal Eltaeb made excruciating choices. Who should live and potentially die? Should he operate without the right medicines if it might save someone’s life? How would…

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Nearly 700 reported killed in Sudan drone strikes this year: UN

April 14, 2026 admin

Image used for representational purposes only. | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Nearly 700 civilians have been reported killed in drone strikes in Sudan since January, the United Nations said Tuesday (April 14, 2026), detailing the devastation and humanitarian catastrophe wrought by the brutal civil war. Now entering a fourth year, the war between Sudan’s army…

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Sudan civil war: Deepening humanitarian crisis

December 12, 2025 admin

Displaced Sudanese who fled El-Fasher after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rest in the camp located on the southwestern edge of Tawila Sudan’s economy has contracted sharply since the civil war broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 15, 2023. Its GDP,…

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Top diplomats from Germany, Jordan and UK call for immediate ceasefire in Sudan war

November 1, 2025 admin

Displaced families from el-Fasher at a displacement camp where they sought refuge from fighting between government forces and the RSF, in Tawila, Darfur region, Sudan, October 31, 2025. (The Norwegian Refugee Council via AP) | Photo Credit: AP The Foreign Ministers of Germany, Jordan and the United Kingdom jointly called on Saturday (November 1, 2025)…

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United Nations says more than 3 million Sudan children facing acute malnutrition

January 10, 2025 admin

Famine has already gripped five areas across Sudan, according to a report last month by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), a UN-backed assessment. File | Photo Credit: Reuters An estimated 3.2 million children under the age of five are expected to face acute malnutrition this year in war-torn Sudan, according to the United…

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