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

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

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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Air strike on market kills over 100 as fighting rages across Sudan

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Air strike on market kills over 100 as fighting rages across Sudan

A Sudanese military air strike on a market in North Darfur killed more than 100 people, a pro-democracy lawyers’ group said Tuesday, as fighting raged across the war-torn country. The Emergency Lawyers said the air strike on Monday also left hundreds injured in Kabkabiya, a town about 180 kilometres (112 miles) west of El-Fasher, the…

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Sudan rescuers say 28 killed in shelling of Khartoum fuel station

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Sudan rescuers say 28 killed in shelling of Khartoum fuel station

The Sudanese army, which has been fighting the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023, has been advancing towards the capital in recent weeks, in a bid to regain control of Khartoum. File. | Photo Credit: AFP A Sudanese network of volunteer rescuers said that 28 civilians were killed Sunday when a fuel station in…

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Refugees from Sudan’s civil war reel under acute hunger and malnutrition

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Refugees from Sudan’s civil war reel under acute hunger and malnutrition

For months, Aziza Abrahim fled from one village in Sudan to the next as people were slaughtered. Yet the killing of relatives and her husband’s disappearance aren’t what forced the 23-year-old to leave the country for good. It was hunger, she said. “We don’t have anything to eat because of the war,” Abrahim said, cradling…

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French weapons system found in Sudan is likely violation of U.N. arms embargo, says Amnesty

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French weapons system found in Sudan is likely violation of U.N. arms embargo, says Amnesty

Sudan’s war erupted in April 2023 between the regular army led by Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. | Photo Credit: AFP Armoured vehicles manufactured by the United Arab Emirates and equipped with French defence systems have been captured by the Sudanese army during the…

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