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The United Nations has described the situation in Sudan as an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, following a rare visit by a UN team to the besieged city of El-Fasher in the western Darfur region. For the first time since the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after......
More than 10,000 people have fled their homes in western and southern Sudan over the past 72 hours due to intensified fighting, the United Nations migration agency reported Sunday. The surge in displacement affects areas in North Darfur and South Kordofan, where clashes between the Sudanese army and......
At least ten people were killed on Saturday when a drone strike hit a market in North Darfur, a western region of Sudan currently under the control of paramilitary forces, according to local emergency responders. The attack targeted the town of Al-Malha, where several commercial premises were set ablaze......
Sudanese troops who abandoned their positions at the country’s largest oil field have surrendered in South Sudan, according to the South Sudanese army. The retreat followed the takeover of the Heglig oil site by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a powerful paramilitary group that has steadily expanded......
At least 30 people were killed on Saturday in a drone strike targeting a displaced persons center in El-Fasher, a city under siege in the Darfur region of western Sudan, according to a local organization. The Coordination of Resistance Committees, a civilian group documenting abuses in the ongoing conflict,......
At least 75 people were killed on Friday in a drone strike carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a mosque in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, according to local rescue workers. The attack targeted the al-Daraja neighborhood, where many displaced families had sought refuge......
A devastating landslide has obliterated the village of Tarasin in western Sudan’s Darfur region, killing over 1,000 residents and leaving only one survivor. The catastrophe was triggered by relentless rains that destabilized the Marra Mountains, burying the community under massive amounts of mud......
At least 19 people were killed and dozens injured in a new wave of airstrikes in Sudan’s Darfur region, where clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continue to devastate civilians. According to medical sources and local NGOs, a drone strike hit the Yashfeen clinic in Nyala,......
At least seven people were killed and 71 others injured on Saturday evening in airstrikes in Darfur, western Sudan, a medical source told AFP on Sunday, attributing the attack to paramilitary forces. The strikes targeted El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, which has been under siege by paramilitaries......
Born in the turmoil of Darfur, Sudan, in 1977, Alek Wek’s journey to becoming a global fashion icon is a testament to resilience and determination. Her early years were marked by the chaos of civil war, forcing her family to flee their homeland and seek refuge in the United Kingdom. This displacement,......
The United Nations has issued a grave warning about the worsening humanitarian disaster in Sudan, stating that children in Khartoum are "nothing but skin and bones" due to severe hunger. The ongoing war, which erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan,......
The Sudanese army, engaged in a fierce battle with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since April 2023, has successfully regained full control of Khartoum's airport, which had been occupied by paramilitary forces. This achievement follows a deadly airstrike by the army that killed at least 270 people......
In a devastating escalation of violence, shelling at a bustling market in southeastern Sudan has resulted in the deaths of at least 21 people and left over 70 others wounded, according to the Sudan Doctors Network. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are alleged to be behind the attack in the......
