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Sudan army makes major gains in South Kordofan, retakes key villages from SPLM-N
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Dec 02, 2025

The Sudan conflict has killed more than 40,000 people, displaced over 14 million, and driven parts of the country into famine, creating one of the wor...

Mass displacement, trafficking fears deepen crisis in Sudan’s El Fasher
UN News  |  Nov 28, 2025

Across Sudan, nearly 12 million people – about half of them children – are now forcibly displaced or have fled to neighbouring countries, with sexual...

UAE, US top diplomats discuss Sudan ceasefire efforts
XINHUA  |  Nov 22, 2025

The US State Department said in a press release that the two sides "continued discussions on our collective efforts to achieve a humanitarian ceasefir...

ICC prosecutors seeks life sentence for Janjaweed commander Ali Kushayb over Darfur atrocities
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 17, 2025

The case stems from the early years of the Darfur conflict, which erupted in 2003 when non-Arab communities rose against the Khartoum government, accu...

MSF raises alarm over extreme malnutrition as Sudan crisis deepens
Mary Wambui  |  Nov 15, 2025

Thousands of families live in makeshift camps with little access to clean water, food, or hygiene services, leading to a cholera outbreak and rising c...

UNHCR warns of deepening humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Kordofan
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Nov 15, 2025

UNHCR notes that women and girls have been subjected to rape and other sexual violence, while parents search for missing children separated during the...

Sudan's army chief says "no truce" with paramilitary forces
XINHUA  |  Nov 15, 2025

Al-Burhan stressed that the Sudanese people will not accept the RSF or its supporters, calling on the international community to "collect the weapons...

Sudan war: Aid teams plead for access to thousands trapped in El Fasher
UN News  |  Nov 15, 2025

According to the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, nearly 100,000 people have fled El Fasher and villages close by in the last two weeks alone.

Families in Sudan ‘running out of time’ as hunger spreads
UN News  |  Nov 14, 2025

Violence has intensified in recent weeks following the RSF’s takeover of El Fasher, capital of North Darfur state, after a siege that lasted more than...

Sudan medics demand international investigation over El Fasher mass graves
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 09, 2025

Medics accuse Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces of mass killings and body-burnings in El Fasher, calling for urgent international investigations as tens of...

Sudan: One-sided truce prompts calls for humanitarian aid
DW News  |  Nov 07, 2025

Rights organizations are pushing for urgent aid increases as the paramilitary RSF has agreed to a pause in fighting. Hunger, meanwhile, has reached ne...

Sudan accuses foreign powers of arming RSF in what it calls systematic extermination in Darfur
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Nov 05, 2025

Sudan’s envoy in Nairobi says rebels are using advanced foreign-supplied weapons as civilians in El-Fasher face a worsening humanitarian crisis.

Sudan’s pain deepens as RSF accused of drone attack that killed 40 at funeral in Kordofan
DW News  |  Nov 05, 2025

The UN condemns the attack as civilians bear the brunt of Sudan’s worsening conflict between the army and RSF.

Sudan crisis deepens as ICC warns El-Fasher atrocities may be war crimes
DW News  |  Nov 03, 2025

The ICC warns that mass killings, rapes, and other atrocities in El-Fasher may amount to war crimes as Sudan’s civil war devastates Darfur.

Sudan’s war at a deadlock: Why the Quad’s peace plan faces near-impossible odds
The Conversation  |  Nov 03, 2025

As Sudan’s civil war displaces millions and fuels famine, deep divisions between the army, paramilitary forces, and international mediators make lasti...

Famine declared in Sudan as war, economic collapse push millions to the brink
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 03, 2025

A UN-backed food security panel has confirmed famine in parts of Darfur and Kordofan, warning that millions of Sudanese are facing starvation as war,...

Only a few civilians escape as RSF violence ravages Sudan’s El-Fasher, leaving thousands trapped
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 02, 2025

Survivors describe executions, beatings, and terror as only a few civilians manage to flee while tens of thousands remain stranded in El-Fasher.

Sudan war: Could involved foreign powers stop the war there?
DW News  |  Nov 01, 2025

Sudan's warring factions depend on external support. What do Egypt, the UAE, Iran and Turkey want in Sudan? And could they exert enough influence to s...

Sudan's RSF fighters reportedly arrested for 'violations'
DW News  |  Oct 31, 2025

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said several of its fighters had been detained as videos of mass executions and atrocities in el-Fasher circ...

UN warns of ‘darker hell’ in El-Fasher after RSF seizes city
Mwangi Maina  |  Oct 31, 2025

The Security Council previously sanctioned RSF commanders for violence and human-rights violations.

Explainer: What does strategic Darfur city's fall mean for Sudan's deadly civil war
XINHUA  |  Oct 31, 2025

In El Fasher, civilians endured months of intense bombardment during a siege. Sudanese officials said on Wednesday that more than 2,000 civilians have...

‘Blood on the sand, blood on the hands’: UN decries world’s failure as Sudan’s El Fasher falls
UN News  |  Oct 31, 2025

Nearly 500 patients and their companions were reportedly killed in the Saudi Maternity Hospital, one of numerous health facilities targeted in the fig...

Tawila overwhelmed as El Fasher exodus deepens Darfur crisis
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Oct 29, 2025

The sudden influx is overwhelming local systems, leaving thousands of newly displaced people without essential support.

IGAD demands action to protect civilians as Sudan conflict escalates
Maureen Kinyanjui  |  Oct 28, 2025

Al Fashir, the last stronghold of the Sudanese military in Darfur, has been under siege for over a year, with nearly a million people facing famine as...

IOM urges immediate aid as Khartoum returnees surpass one million
Mary Wambui  |  Oct 22, 2025

Majority of the individuals who returned were recorded across Khartoum (40 per cent), Aj Jazirah (37 per cent), Sennar (7 per cent), Blue Nile (7 per...

Inside El Fasher: A city under siege as hospitals and civilians face relentless attacks
Rachael Mutabasi  |  Oct 11, 2025

The UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights documented at least 53 civilians killed between October 5-8 alone in attacks across the El Fa...

UN Rights Chief appalled by continued killing of civilians in Sudan
Mary Wambui  |  Oct 11, 2025

The UN Human Rights Office has confirmed that at least 46 civilians were killed in artillery and drone strikes in the Abu Shouk and Daraja Oula neighb...

Over 60 killed or wounded in two days of Sudan's RSF shelling on civilians in El Fasher, North Darfur
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 09, 2025

On Wednesday, reports indicate that RSF artillery struck a packed displacement shelter within a mosque in El Fasher's Abushouk al-Hilla area, leaving...

ICC renews call for the arrest of former Sudan President Omar al-Bashir
Mary Wambui  |  Oct 07, 2025

Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan announced that the investigation on the situation in Darfur remains active and that all responsible for atrociti...

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