UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, warned that “time is running out” as famine, disease and fighting close in on the population “and there’s no end in sight”.
On Sunday, a bomb that fell near the hospital claimed the lives of two children and left others injured following intense fighting for the control of El Fasher City.
The curfew restricts the movement of people and vehicles between 11 pm and 5 am and bans all commercial activities and pedestrian movement between 10 pm and 5 am.
Nkweta-Salami highlighted the dire situation in Al Fasher, where clashes have intensified despite numerous pleas to conflicting parties to avoid combat in the city.
The atrocities and discrimination that 29-year-old Jamal Abdallah Khamis faced as a member of West Darfur’s Massalit community led him to become a human rights defender.
The health system and basic services in Al Jazirah state have collapsed as a consequence of the fighting and the systematic blockade on supplies and personnel entering the area.
Due to the ongoing conflict, South Sudan’s oil production and exportation, which relies on transit through Sudan, has been suspended since early February.
Al-Hilal are a Sudanese powerhouse and well-known in Africa and the Arab world, having won 29 league titles
The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said it was aware that 1,000 people had left Kumer on Wednesday because they felt unsafe after a series of security incidents.
The desperation from the war was highlighted at the Aswan International Women Film Festival through five Sudanese short films.
Since the start of the month, at least 11 villages on al-Fashir's outskirts have been razed, according to satellite imagery obtained by the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab. At least 36,000 have been displaced, the United Nations estimates.
The UAE says it does not interfere in the internal affairs of other countries and remains committed to a peaceful resolution.
The war between the army and the paramilitary RSF has creasted the world's largest displacement crisis.
The Cabinet issued the decision without specifying the reasons behind the dismissal.
Since April 2023, more than 8.5 million people have been forcibly displaced due to fighting.
Among those whose lives may be jeopardised are over 7,000 new mothers, if their nutritional and health needs go unmet.
Today Chad is home to almost a million Sudanese refugees -- more than any other country.
During the current war, government forces have used their air power to bomb targets on the ground, but failed to gain back much territory and have been blamed for striking civilians.
ACF sounded an alert over the 480,000 cases of severe child malnutrition expected in the year to September 2024.
