Sudan war Stories

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...

UN welcomes aid supply talks with Sudan army
DW News  |  Nov 12, 2025

Tom Fletcher, the UN's top humanitarian official, is visiting Port Sudan, the de facto capital of Sudan. Meanwhile, a UN official told DW "dismal" int...

Sudan war: 89,000 civilians have fled El Fasher
UN News  |  Nov 11, 2025

The UN called for an “immediate cessation of hostilities” as well as the protection of civilians and aid workers, an end to hospital and civilian infr...

Africa’s rapid drone expansion promises high-tech warfare but struggles to achieve strategic results
The Conversation  |  Nov 10, 2025

Armed drones from Turkey, China, and Iran are reshaping African conflicts, offering tactical strikes and surveillance—but vast terrain, limited infras...

Ignored warnings, deadly consequences: How UK failed Sudan's El Fasher civilians
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 09, 2025

Internal UK documents reveal officials chose minimal action despite warnings of mass killings and sexual violence in El Fasher.

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...

Rights chief warns ‘abominable atrocities’ likely continuing in Sudan’s El Fasher
UN News  |  Nov 08, 2025

In an interview with UN News on Thursday, UN Special Adviser on genocide prevention Chaloka Beyani raised concerns over allegations of war crimes in E...

Sudan records nearly 2,000 cholera deaths as conflict exacerbates outbreak: Africa CDC
XINHUA  |  Nov 07, 2025

All 18 states in Sudan are affected by the ongoing cholera outbreak, with current hotspot areas including North Kordofan, White Nile, and Darfur, and...

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...

Genocide prevention expert raises alarm over alleged Sudan atrocity crimes
UN News  |  Nov 07, 2025

Beyani’s office said risk indicators for atrocity crimes are present in Sudan but emphasises that only an international court or other legal body can...

Fact Check: How fake content about the Sudan war spreads
DW News  |  Nov 06, 2025

While atrocities against civilians and combatants alike remain a sad reality of Sudan's brutal civil war, some of the most viral content around the co...

Sudan war and political uncertainty block progress on Abyei peace talks
UN News  |  Nov 06, 2025

The fighting is putting peacekeepers at risk and “the situation has become more dire with a surge in targeted drone strikes” by the RSF, which has had...

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.

RSF claims responsibility for downing Sudanese military plane in West Kordofan
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 05, 2025

The RSF announced that its air defence system successfully targeted the Ilyushin aircraft, which it alleged belonged to the Islamic Movement Army, aft...

Sudanese army says to continue fighting despite US truce proposal
XINHUA  |  Nov 05, 2025

The conflict between Sudan's army and the RSF has raged since April 2023, killing thousands and displacing millions across Sudan and beyond.

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,...

Pope Leo XIV appeals for end to Sudan conflict as thousands killed in El Fasher
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Nov 02, 2025

He urged both sides to cease hostilities immediately and allow life-saving aid to reach civilians, while also appealing to the international community...

Foreign ministers decry 'apocalyptic' atrocities in Sudan
DW News  |  Nov 02, 2025

Fighting has raged in Sudan between the military and its former ally, the RSF, since 2023. The United Arab Emirates has been accused of fueling the cr...

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...

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...

Over 15,000 flee Sudan's El Fasher amid RSF attacks on civilians
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 30, 2025

The Sudanese Doctors Network warned of an imminent humanitarian catastrophe in Tawila if international agencies do not intervene urgently.

Sudan war: Mass killings prompt fears of a new Darfur genocide
DW News  |  Oct 30, 2025

More horrific reports of atrocities against civilians in el-Fasher came on the third day after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized control.

Reported massacre at hospital in Sudan’s El Fasher leaves 460 dead
UN News  |  Oct 30, 2025

Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that prior to this latest attack, WHO has verified 285 attacks on healthcare in Sudan with at least 1...

Amnesty International urges RSF to end El Fasher siege, as WHO calls for immediate ceasefire
Lucy Mumbi  |  Oct 29, 2025

The World Health Organisation has called for an immediate ceasefire after reports that 460 patients and their companions were massacred at the Saudi M...

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.

Sudan expels two senior World Food Programme officials amid escalating tensions
Mwangi Maina  |  Oct 29, 2025

Laurent Bukera, head of the WFP office in Sudan, and Samantha Chattaraj, the agency's operations director, were summoned by the ministry and formally...

Sudan army withdraws from El Fasher as RSF seizes control
Bashir Mbuthia  |  Oct 28, 2025

The remarks mark Abdel's first confirmation that the army lost control of the strategic city in western Darfur, which has been under RSF siege since M...

Risk of large-scale atrocities in Sudan’s El Fasher grows ‘by the day’
UN News  |  Oct 28, 2025

Guterres noted that the problem is not only the fighting between the army and the RSF, but also the growing “external interference” that undermines pr...

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