Sudan's fighting risks reigniting war in Darfur, a site of atrocities 20 years ago
1 year, 9 months ago

Sudan's fighting risks reigniting war in Darfur, a site of atrocities 20 years ago

NPR  

Sudan's fighting risks reigniting war in Darfur, a site of atrocities 20 years ago Enlarge this image toggle caption AFP via Getty Images AFP via Getty Images JOHANNESBURG — As fighting in Sudan's capital continues to rage, experts say it is spilling over into the country's western Darfur region and risks fully reigniting a semi-dormant conflict that began two decades ago. Africa Sudan doctor: We don't have safe corridors to reach patients Medical professionals in Sudan toil to keep health care system from collapsing Listen · 4:16 4:16 The violence is also creating a new wave of refugees, with more than 115,000 people recently fleeing Darfur to neighboring Chad. Africa U.N.: 'Water is so urgently needed' for Sudan's refugees in Chad As Sudan enters its 5th week of conflict, thousands cross into neighboring Chad Listen · 2:04 2:04 They "were just killing people. Whatever happens next in the almost two-month-old conflict, Reeves says one thing's for sure: "Darfur will be in the RSF crosshairs for the foreseeable future."

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Sudan’s Civil Conflict: Humanitarian Crisis, Foreign Interventions, and a Nation in Ruins
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1 week ago

Sudan’s Civil Conflict: Humanitarian Crisis, Foreign Interventions, and a Nation in Ruins

The Hindu  

Published : Mar 09, 2025 09:44 IST - 12 MINS READ As the civil conflict in Sudan nears its two-year mark, the country is reeling from the hammer blows of the warring parties. While the SAF continued to rejuvenate itself, the RSF’s recruitment efforts weakened, its cadres lacked adequate military training, and domestic supply chains struggled due to the 1,200 …

Sudan's military is making advances to retake the capital. What's changing in the nearly 2-year war?
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2 weeks, 4 days ago

Sudan's military is making advances to retake the capital. What's changing in the nearly 2-year war?

Firstpost  

For the first time, the military has been making steady advances against its rival, the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, and it could soon wrest back control of the capital, Khartoum A man walks by a house hit in recent fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, an area torn by fighting between the military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, on …

Sudan’s military is making advances to retake the capital. What’s changing in the nearly 2-year war?
2 weeks, 4 days ago

Sudan’s military is making advances to retake the capital. What’s changing in the nearly 2-year war?

Associated Press  

CAIRO — The war in Sudan appears to be reaching a critical juncture after nearly two years of fighting that has killed tens of thousands, driven millions from their homes and seen bloody atrocities. The RSF’s 16-page government charter, seen by the AP, calls for “a secular, democratic and decentralized state,” maintaining what it called Sudan’s “voluntary integrity of its …

UN urges action on war-ravaged Sudan
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3 weeks, 5 days ago

UN urges action on war-ravaged Sudan

China Daily  

Displaced Sudanese children gather at a camp near the town of Tawila in North Darfur state on Feb 11. While launching the 2025 humanitarian and refugee response plans for Sudan on Monday, UN officials said the humanitarian response for Sudan aims to raise $4.2 billion to provide aid to 21 million people inside Sudan, while the regional refugee response plan …

Over 200 killed in three-day Sudan paramilitary assault: lawyer group
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Over 200 killed in three-day Sudan paramilitary assault: lawyer group

The Hindu  

Sudanese paramilitaries have killed more than 200 people including women and children in a three-day assault on villages in the country’s south, a lawyer group monitoring the war said Tuesday, February 18, 2025. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, locked in a nearly two-year war with the regular army, “attacked unarmed civilians in areas with no military presence” in Al-Kadaris and …

RSF escalates attacks on Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam refugee camp
1 month ago

RSF escalates attacks on Sudan’s famine-stricken Zamzam refugee camp

Al Jazeera  

The paramilitary group is trying to tighten its grip on Darfur, a traditional stronghold. The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has stepped up its attacks on the Zamzam refugee camp near el-Fasher, capital of the North Darfur state. ‘They terrorise’ Nearly 22 months since the war erupted in Sudan between the RSF and the SAF, the paramilitary group still controls …

UN official says Sudan paramilitary group is preventing life-saving aid from famine-hit Darfur
1 month ago

UN official says Sudan paramilitary group is preventing life-saving aid from famine-hit Darfur

Associated Press  

CAIRO — Paramilitary forces at war with the military in Sudan are preventing life-saving aid from reaching many people in the famine-hit Darfur region, the United Nations’ top humanitarian official in the country said Monday. Clementine Nkweta-Salami, the U.N. resident and humanitarian coordinator in Sudan, said in a statement that the Rapid Support Forces have imposed “obstruction, undue interference and …

As Sudan’s RSF surrounds Darfur’s el-Fasher, ethnic killings feared
1 month, 2 weeks ago

As Sudan’s RSF surrounds Darfur’s el-Fasher, ethnic killings feared

Al Jazeera  

Sudan’s army could lose the last major city it controls in the western region of Darfur within days to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, according to analysts, local monitors and RSF sources. Ali Musabel, an RSF adviser, told Al Jazeera: “The RSF will free el-Fasher … in about 10 days.” The RSF has launched drones, fired artillery and surrounded el-Fasher …

Dozens killed in drone attack on hospital in Sudan’s Darfur
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Dozens killed in drone attack on hospital in Sudan’s Darfur

Al Jazeera  

Attacks on healthcare facilities rampant in besieged el-Fasher, where army-aligned militias are pushing back RSF fighters. Dozens of patients have been killed in a drone attack on one of the last functioning hospitals in el-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region. The RSF has besieged el-Fasher, the state capital of North Darfur, since May, but army-aligned armed groups have repeatedly pushed its …

UN says Sudan war turning 'more dangerous' for civilians after Al-Jazira attacks
2 months ago

UN says Sudan war turning 'more dangerous' for civilians after Al-Jazira attacks

New Indian Express  

The United Nations human rights chief warned Friday that the war in Sudan is becoming "more dangerous" for civilians, following reports from rights groups of army-allied militias carrying out ethnic-based attacks on minorities in Al-Jazira state. The "Sudan conflict taking more dangerous turn for civilians," UN Human Rights Commissioner Volker Turk said on social media platform X, adding that "there …

Sudan faces possible Darfur division as war progresses, say analysts
2 months ago

Sudan faces possible Darfur division as war progresses, say analysts

Al Jazeera  

A de facto partition of Sudan between army and RSF could lead to total state disintegration, analysts say. The Sudanese army is likely to find it difficult to take Darfur if the RSF does entrench itself further, said Hamid Khalafallah, a Sudan policy analyst. “It will take a lot for the army to defeat the RSF in Darfur, and it …

Sudan civil war: Major setback for RSF as army enters paramilitary's key stronghold in Al-Jazira
2 months ago

Sudan civil war: Major setback for RSF as army enters paramilitary's key stronghold in Al-Jazira

Firstpost  

Members of Sudan's security forces walk past supporters in the opening ceremony of a headquarter facility in the army-controlled Port Sudan, where the government loyal to the army is based on the Red Sea coast, on October 28, 2024. Image- AFP The Sudanese military and allied armed groups launched an offensive Saturday, entering the Al-Jazira state capital of Wad Madani …

Genocide is declared once more in Sudan. How did the country get here?
2 months, 1 week ago

Genocide is declared once more in Sudan. How did the country get here?

CNN  

CNN — This week, the United States accused the RSF militia in Sudan’s brutal civil conflict of committing genocide. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that Hemedti’s RSF and its allied Arab militias had perpetrated “direct attacks against civilians” including the systematic murder of “men and boys – even infants – on an ethnic basis.” They also “deliberately …

Sudan’s war is ‘deepening and widening’ a famine crisis, hunger monitoring report says
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Sudan’s war is ‘deepening and widening’ a famine crisis, hunger monitoring report says

Associated Press  

CAIRO — Famine is spreading in Sudan due to a war between the military and a notorious paramilitary group that has devastated the country and created the world’s largest displacement crisis, a global hunger monitoring group said Tuesday. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, said it detected famine in five areas, including in Sudan’s largest displacement camp, Zamzam, …

Sudan civil war: More than 700 killed in siege of Darfur’s al-Fashir, says UN rights chief
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Sudan civil war: More than 700 killed in siege of Darfur’s al-Fashir, says UN rights chief

Firstpost  

Sudan’s army and the RSF have been locked in conflict for more than 18 months, triggering a profound humanitarian crisis in which more than 12 million people have been driven from their homes and U.N. agencies have struggled to deliver relief. Al-Fashir, a key battleground between the RSF and the Sudanese army, remains a focal point in the fight for …

Sudan civil war: 10 civilians killed, 20 wounded after RSF shelling in Darfur's El-Fasher
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Sudan civil war: 10 civilians killed, 20 wounded after RSF shelling in Darfur's El-Fasher

Firstpost  

El-Fasher, home to around two million people, has been under RSF siege since May and remains one of the most fiercely contested battlegrounds in the Sudan war Sudan’s civil war: The army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has pushed the vast Afro-Arab nation closer to the abyss. File Photo- Reuters Shelling by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on …

45 killed, 28 injured in paramilitary forces attacks: Sudanese army
3 months ago

45 killed, 28 injured in paramilitary forces attacks: Sudanese army

China Daily  

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-12-13 20:11 KHARTOUM - At least 45 civilians were killed and 28 others injured in an artillery shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on residential neighborhoods and displacement camps in western Sudan, the Sudanese army said Friday. "Neighborhoods and camps in El Fasher city witnessed a significant massacre yesterday, as a result of deliberate shelling by …

45 killed, 28 injured in paramilitary forces attacks: Sudanese army
3 months ago

45 killed, 28 injured in paramilitary forces attacks: Sudanese army

China Daily  

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-12-13 20:11 KHARTOUM - At least 45 civilians were killed and 28 others injured in an artillery shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on residential neighborhoods and displacement camps in western Sudan, the Sudanese army said Friday. "Neighborhoods and camps in El Fasher city witnessed a significant massacre yesterday, as a result of deliberate shelling by …

Threat of RSF invasion looms over el-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur
3 months, 1 week ago

Threat of RSF invasion looms over el-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur

Al Jazeera  

Displaced people are taking up arms to defend themselves against the paramilitary and the atrocities it is known for. “Since 2004, the Janjaweed has been raping us and killing women and girls.” RSF closing in By November 2023, the RSF had conquered four Darfur states – South, East, West and Central – and looked like it would soon take the …

Visualising the war in Sudan: Conflict, control and displacement
4 months ago

Visualising the war in Sudan: Conflict, control and displacement

Al Jazeera  

The world’s worst internal displacement crisis, with at least 14 million people uprooted from their homes, is in Sudan. Other groups, including Darfur Communal Militia, Darfur Arab Militia, Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, Twic Clan Militia and others have been behind the remaining 1,068 of attacks. 14 million people displaced The UN has warned that Sudan is facing the world’s worst …

Sudan keeps key aid crossing from Chad open for hard-hit Darfur region as famine grows
4 months ago

Sudan keeps key aid crossing from Chad open for hard-hit Darfur region as famine grows

Associated Press  

CAIRO, Egypt — Sudan’s military-controlled government said Wednesday that a key border crossing with Chad will stay open to keep much-needed humanitarian aid flowing into the western Darfur region which has been a center of fighting in the country’s ongoing war. The decision on the Adre crossing followed a meeting with United Nations agencies and local and international aid groups, …

Sudan's warring forces are escalating attacks and outsiders are 'fueling the fire,' Guterres says
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Sudan's warring forces are escalating attacks and outsiders are 'fueling the fire,' Guterres says

The Independent  

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Sudan War: A Living Nightmare for Millions
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Sudan War: A Living Nightmare for Millions

Al Jazeera  

The war in Sudan has displaced over 14 million people and is creating a world's largest displacement crisis this year. The civil conflict has created a living nightmare for millions, with hunger, disease and sexual violence rampant. The UN's International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director-General Amy Pope described the situation in the war-torn African country as 'catastrophic'. The war has …

US sanctions a leader of Sudan's paramilitary group for fueling a brutal war
5 months, 1 week ago

US sanctions a leader of Sudan's paramilitary group for fueling a brutal war

The Independent  

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Relentless fighting is devastating Sudan and escalating in Darfur's capital, UN says
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Relentless fighting is devastating Sudan and escalating in Darfur's capital, UN says

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Acting humanitarian chief Joyce Msuya told the U.N. Security …

Sudan accuses UAE of arming rivals and prolonging war, UAE accuses Sudan of refusing to talk peace
6 months ago

Sudan accuses UAE of arming rivals and prolonging war, UAE accuses Sudan of refusing to talk peace

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The Sudanese government accused the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday of providing weapons to its rival paramilitary force and prolonging the 17-month war. Sudanese Ambassador Al-Harith Mohamed accused the UAE of providing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, known as the RAF, with heavy weapons, missiles and ammunition – and of “profiting from this war through the illegal …

Global community needs to do more to end RSF atrocities in Sudan
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Global community needs to do more to end RSF atrocities in Sudan

Al Jazeera  

It appears most of the West has forgotten that the RSF is essentially an upgraded version of the Janjaweed militias infamous for genocide and ethnic cleansing. True, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2736, adopted on June 13, 2024, which demands the RSF halt its siege of el-Fasher in North Darfur region and end fighting in the area, is significant. …

What’s Sudan like after 15 months of war, displacement, and brutality?
8 months, 1 week ago

What’s Sudan like after 15 months of war, displacement, and brutality?

Al Jazeera  

Fighting has been reported in the towns of Sinja, Sennar and Dinder, prompting an exodus of civilians to neighnouring states. The war in Sudan is approaching its 16th month, with tens of thousands of people killed and millions displaced in what international organisations say is the world’s worst displacement crisis. The RSF began attacking towns in the southeastern state of …

Sudan continues to spiral into chaos: UN agency
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Sudan continues to spiral into chaos: UN agency

China Daily  

A handout photograph, shot in Jan 2024, shows women and babies at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to Al Fasher in North Darfur, Sudan. KHARTOUM - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Monday said Sudan continues to spiral into chaos, with the humanitarian crisis worsening. "The lives of 800,000 people -- of women, children, men, the …

Civil war in Sudan takes centre stage at UN
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Civil war in Sudan takes centre stage at UN

Al Jazeera  

Sudan has accused the United Arab Emirates of arming a paramilitary force in the country’s 14-month civil war, prompting a clash at the United Nations Security Council. Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith Mohamed, Sudan’s UN ambassador, accused the UAE late on Tuesday of arming the Rapid Support Forces, which has been fighting Sudan’s army since April 2023 and faces accusations of ethnic …

Starving to death is as scary as the war for Sudanese refugees in Chad
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Starving to death is as scary as the war for Sudanese refugees in Chad

Al Jazeera  

The looming famine in Sudan is pushing thousands of civilians from Darfur to flee to Chad, say refugees and aid groups. About 756,000 people are facing “catastrophic levels of hunger” with an additional 25.6 million people facing acute food shortages, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, the United Nations’ hunger-level scale. However, a lack of funding has forced …

Sudan’s army repels major assault on el-Fasher; kills RSF commander
9 months ago

Sudan’s army repels major assault on el-Fasher; kills RSF commander

Al Jazeera  

The war has created the worst humanitarian situation in the world with an estimated 756,000 people in Sudan facing ‘catastrophic food shortages’ by September. Sudan’s Armed Forces “aborted the attack and inflicted huge losses” with “hundreds” of dead and wounded in the failed RSF assault, it said in a statement. The conflict in Sudan broke out in April 2023 between …

UN adopts a resolution demanding that Sudan's paramilitary force halt its siege of a Darfur city
9 months ago

UN adopts a resolution demanding that Sudan's paramilitary force halt its siege of a Darfur city

The Independent  

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UN adopts a resolution demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force halt its siege of a Darfur city
9 months ago

UN adopts a resolution demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force halt its siege of a Darfur city

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Thursday demanding that Sudan’s paramilitary force immediately halt its siege of the only capital in the vast western region of Darfur that it doesn’t control and where more than a million people are reportedly trapped. Ambassador Barbara Woodward told the council after the vote that the resolution sends a clear …

ICC prosecutor appeals for evidence of atrocities in Sudan after rebels attack hospital in Darfur
9 months ago

ICC prosecutor appeals for evidence of atrocities in Sudan after rebels attack hospital in Darfur

Associated Press  

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor appealed Tuesday for information and evidence of atrocities in Sudan, saying his ongoing investigation “seems to disclose an organized, systematic and a profound attack on human dignity.” ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan released a video statement in the aftermath of an attack Sunday by the notorious Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group …

Sudan paramilitary RSF targets last operating hospital in Darfur
9 months, 1 week ago

Sudan paramilitary RSF targets last operating hospital in Darfur

Al Jazeera  

The armed group fired on and looted the last operating hospital in western Darfur, forcing it to close. The Rapid Support Forces paramilitary in Sudan has attacked the last operating hospital in the Darfur region, an international aid group said. Doctors Without Borders, known by its French initials MSF, reported late on Sunday that the RSF had attacked the South …

Sudan civil war: Death toll in El Fasher reaches 134 amid deadly fighting, MSF says
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Sudan civil war: Death toll in El Fasher reaches 134 amid deadly fighting, MSF says

CNN  

CNN — At least 134 people have been killed in El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, since May 10 due to intense fighting, according to a statement from Doctors Without Borders on Sunday. The fighting also affects thousands of displaced people who have fled to El Fasher from the other four Darfur states now controlled by the …

More than 100 killed in two weeks of fighting in Sudan’s el-Fasher: MSF
9 months, 2 weeks ago

More than 100 killed in two weeks of fighting in Sudan’s el-Fasher: MSF

Al Jazeera  

Charity says more than 900 wounded in the capital of North Darfur province in fighting between Sudan’s army and the RSF. More than 100 people have been killed in just over two weeks in a major city in Sudan’s Darfur region, an aid group has said, as the Sudanese Armed Forces and allied armed groups are locked in fierce fighting …

47 killed in Sudan's el-Fasher region as conflict rages
9 months, 2 weeks ago

47 killed in Sudan's el-Fasher region as conflict rages

New Indian Express  

War in Sudan erupted in mid-April last year when a simmering feud between the leaders of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces exploded into violence, Al Jazeera reported. Fighting between the army, headed by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, since last April has killed tens of …

The new cycle of atrocities in Darfur must be stopped
9 months, 3 weeks ago

The new cycle of atrocities in Darfur must be stopped

Al Jazeera  

For months now, Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, an independent military force, together with allied armed groups, have been besieging the city of el-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur. RSF forces and affiliated armed groups have already killed thousands of mostly Massalit people in el-Geneina, West Darfur, and surrounding areas, forcing more than half a million people, mostly Massalit, to flee …

‘Hell on Earth’ as violence escalates in Sudan’s el-Fasher
10 months ago

‘Hell on Earth’ as violence escalates in Sudan’s el-Fasher

Al Jazeera  

UN says it has received only 12 percent of funds sought for war-wracked Sudan as ‘famine is closing in’. The United Nations human rights chief has expressed horror over the escalating violence in Sudan’s North Darfur region as a top humanitarian official described the worsening situation on the ground as “hell of Earth”. Hundreds of thousands of displaced people are …

US sanctions two RSF commanders as fighting escalates in Sudan’s Darfur
10 months ago

US sanctions two RSF commanders as fighting escalates in Sudan’s Darfur

Al Jazeera  

UN officials and rights groups warn hundreds of thousands of civilians are at risk amid heavy fighting in el-Fasher. The United States has imposed sanctions against two commanders of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, as rights groups and the United Nations warn that deadly violence in the North Darfur region is escalating. The US Department of the Treasury said on …

Sudan’s military fends off an attack by paramilitary forces on a major Darfur city
10 months ago

Sudan’s military fends off an attack by paramilitary forces on a major Darfur city

Associated Press  

CAIRO — Sudan’s military and allied armed groups staved off an attack by a paramilitary group and Arab militias on a major city in the western region of Darfur, officials and residents said Saturday. The RSF and their allies launched the attack on el-Fasher’s eastern side early Friday and clashed with military forces and other armed groups defending the city, …

Sudan’s military fends off an attack by paramilitary forces on a major Darfur city
10 months ago

Sudan’s military fends off an attack by paramilitary forces on a major Darfur city

The Independent  

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Children ‘piled up and shot’ in Sudan as UN envoy says world cannot ignore this ‘silent war and famine’
10 months, 1 week ago

Children ‘piled up and shot’ in Sudan as UN envoy says world cannot ignore this ‘silent war and famine’

The Independent  

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Sudanese paramilitary forces have carried out ethnic cleansing in Darfur, rights group says
10 months, 1 week ago

Sudanese paramilitary forces have carried out ethnic cleansing in Darfur, rights group says

Associated Press  

CAIRO — A leading rights group said on Thursday that attacks by Sudanese paramilitary forces and their allied militias, which killed thousands in the western region of Darfur last year, constituted a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the area’s non-Arab population. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which has been fighting Sudan’s military for over a year, allied with armed militias …

Sudan’s paramilitary RSF accused of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Darfur
10 months, 1 week ago

Sudan’s paramilitary RSF accused of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in West Darfur

Al Jazeera  

Human Rights Watch says ‘thousands’ killed in attacks last year targeting Masalit tribe and other non-Arab groups. Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allied militias killed “at least thousands of people” in West Darfur state, an international rights group has said, in what it called apparent “crimes against humanity” and “genocide”. In a report published on Thursday, Human Rights Watch …

The UN warns Sudan’s warring parties that Darfur risks starvation and death if aid isn’t allowed in
10 months, 1 week ago

The UN warns Sudan’s warring parties that Darfur risks starvation and death if aid isn’t allowed in

Associated Press  

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations food agency warned Sudan’s warring parties Friday that there is a serious risk of widespread starvation and death in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan if they don’t allow humanitarian aid into the vast western region. Leni Kinzli, the World Food Program’s regional spokesperson, said at least 1.7 million people in Darfur were experiencing emergency …

The UN warns Sudan's warring parties that Darfur risks starvation and death if aid isn't allowed in
10 months, 1 week ago

The UN warns Sudan's warring parties that Darfur risks starvation and death if aid isn't allowed in

New Indian Express  

The United Nations food agency warned Sudan’s warring parties Friday that there is a serious risk of widespread starvation and death in Darfur and elsewhere in Sudan if they don’t allow humanitarian aid into the vast western region. Leni Kinzli, the World Food Program’s regional spokesperson, said at least 1.7 million people in Darfur were experiencing emergency levels of hunger …

US urges countries supplying weapons to Sudan's warring parties to stop, warning of a new genocide
10 months, 2 weeks ago

US urges countries supplying weapons to Sudan's warring parties to stop, warning of a new genocide

The Independent  

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