Darfur region Stories

Sudan to allow aid agencies to use Adre border crossing for three more months
Reuters  |  Feb 18, 2025

The government had last year restricted the use of the crossing, which is crucial to reaching famine-stricken parts of the Darfur region, saying that...

WHO chief urges end to attacks on Sudan healthcare after 70 killed in drone strike
Reuters  |  Jan 26, 2025

The conflict has produced waves of ethnically driven violence blamed largely on the RSF, creating a humanitarian crisis.

IGAD warns of ISIS from Ethiopia, Tanzania, Yemen in Puntland region of Somalia
Mary Wambui  |  Jan 22, 2025

he tepoty notes that, despite violent extremism remaining a major obstacle to peace and security in the Horn of Africa, the quarter recorded a slight...

Global hunger monitor says famine in war-torn Sudan is spreading
Reuters  |  Dec 24, 2024

The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) are engaged in a civil war with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and are adamantly opposed to a famine declaration for f...

Sudan's RSF says seizes back control of key Darfur base from army allies
Reuters  |  Dec 23, 2024

Dozens of RSF soldiers were killed, vehicles destroyed and supplies captured as they captured the base, they said.

More than 700 killed in siege of Sudan's al-Fashir, UN rights chief says
Reuters  |  Dec 21, 2024

The UN rights office said it had documented the deaths of at least 782 civilians and more than 1,143 injured since May.

Sudan's RSF fighters say they plan to work with a new government, raising partition fears
Reuters  |  Dec 21, 2024

The US Special Envoy to Sudan, Tom Perriello, said last week any such new administration would be a step backwards.

Major food aid 'scale-up' underway to famine-hit Sudan, WFP says
Reuters  |  Nov 27, 2024

Some of the food is intended for 14 areas of the country that face famine or are at risk of famine, including the Zamzam camp in the Darfur region.

US Sudan envoy seeks increased aid flow as he meets army chief Burhan
Reuters  |  Nov 19, 2024

The visit came as the RSF continued revenge attacks in eastern El Gezira state and a campaign to take over the army's last Darfur stronghold al-Fashir...

US imposes sanctions on Sudanese paramilitary commander
Reuters  |  Nov 12, 2024

The action follows sanctions imposed on Barkalla by a United Nations Security Council committee last week and marks the latest action by Washington ov...

Sudan's army launches attacks to retake ground in capital Khartoum
Reuters  |  Sep 26, 2024

The army and the RSF had previously shared power after staging a coup in 2021.

Relief as UN trucks with aid food enter Sudan’s Darfur region
Vincent Ombati  |  Aug 22, 2024

The World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director, Cindy McCain, described the reopening of the Adre crossing as a crucial development.

Sudan to open Adre border crossing to facilitate humanitarian aid access
UN News  |  Aug 17, 2024

The development comes amid ongoing conflict including a bombing attack on Wednesday that devastated a school and market in the city of El Obeid, leavi...

Unruly RSF fighters sow chaos in Sudan's farming heartland
Reuters  |  Aug 09, 2024

The RSF says it is open to negotiating a ceasefire and humanitarian access. The military says it cannot negotiate until the RSF exits civilian areas a...

Sudan's famine-stricken Zamzam camp hit by devastating floods
Reuters  |  Aug 03, 2024

Zamzam is the largest IDP camp in Sudan, and some people have lived there for more than two decades.

UN food supplies into Sudan's famine-threatened Darfur stranded
Reuters  |  Jul 18, 2024

WFP has described Sudan as the world's biggest hunger crisis, with the western Darfur region most at risk as Sudan's 15-month civil war that has displ...

‘Nowhere is safe’ for civilians as Sudan war descends further into chaos
UN News  |  Jun 18, 2024

The war that erupted last April between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has triggered political instab...

Sudan war: UN raises alarm over civilian safety in North Darfur state
Amina Wako  |  Jun 05, 2024

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), at least 130,000 people have been displaced in and around Al Fasher ov...

Sudan conflict: At Least 11 killed, dozens injured in renewed El-Fasher clashes
Lucy Mumbi  |  Jun 02, 2024

Since May 10, 2024, El-Fasher has witnessed intense clashes between the SAF and the RSF, resulting in significant civilian casualties and mass displac...

Sudan faces imminent famine and humanitarian crisis - report
Hanifa Adan  |  Jun 01, 2024

In Al Fasher, over 800,000 civilians are bracing for a large-scale attack, which could have catastrophic humanitarian consequences across Darfur.

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