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

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 …

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6 months ago

A massacre, an exodus from Darfur and years of rehab for Sudanese refugees

Al Jazeera

A year ago, RSF forces are accused of massacring Masalit people in Darfur. The exodus unfolded after West Darfur’s Governor Khamis Abkar accused the RSF and allied nomadic fighters of committing genocide against the Masalit during a live broadcast on June 6, 2023. We hold the Sudanese Military Intelligence, a wing of the Sudanese Armed Forces, and its radical… — …

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7 months, 1 week 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 …

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8 months ago

Sudan war could lead to more ethnic killings in volatile Darfur region

Al Jazeera

Proximity to Chad means violence in North Darfur between the RSF and Sudan’s army could easily spread. Sudan’s civil war between its army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces could very well trigger a conflict in North Darfur that has impacts beyond Sudan’s borders, according to residents, aid workers and experts. Last week, tensions soared after the Joint Force of …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Famine looms in Sudan

Al Jazeera

As war continues unabated in Sudan, an acute food emergency could kill hundreds of thousands of people by next year. “When we started, about 70 people would come to us for food … from several neighbourhoods,” Abdel Hay told Al Jazeera from Khartoum. “Eventually, we started to see more than 200 people coming each time we cooked.” Ten months into …

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11 months ago

Sudan’s Hemedti embraced abroad as he terrorises civilians at home

Al Jazeera

On January 6, Sudanese paramilitary leader Mohamad Hamdan Dagalo, better known as “Hemedti”, visited the memorial in Kigali that commemorates the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Taqaddum’s agreement with Hemedti said the RSF was willing “to immediately and unconditionally end hostilities” and provide security to civilians and repair basic services in areas under its control. “Taqaddum can’t have any legitimacy without the …

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11 months, 1 week ago

‘They’re going to kill us’: Sudan’s army targets civilians on ethnic basis

Al Jazeera

Army accuses civilians of spying for the RSF paramilitary based on ethnic grounds, leading to arrests, torture and killings. … They’re going to kill us.’” The army seems to be cracking down on people from regions where its rivals, the RSF, have some support, accusing them of being RSF “sleeper cells”. There are broad perceptions that “Arab” army officers secretly …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Sudan’s feared paramilitary leader signals ambition to rule the country

Al Jazeera

Mohamed Hamdan ‘Hemedti’ Dagalo goes on an African tour to secure regional support and political legitimacy. When Sudan’s civil war erupted in April between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary group’s leader, Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, went into hiding. I think this is why Hemedti went to meet heads of state,” said Kholood Khair, a Sudan expert …

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1 year ago

Sudan’s civilians pick up arms, as RSF gains and army stumbles

Al Jazeera

Young men are grabbing weapons to fight with the army, defend their cities, raising fears of deepening ethnic conflict. Over the past week, recruitment has picked up across River Nile State since the RSF captured Wad Madani, Sudan’s second-largest city. But now, army officers and figures from Sudan’s political Islamic movement, which ruled for 30 years under former autocratic president …

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1 year ago

UN says up to 300,000 Sudanese fled their homes after a notorious group seized their safe haven

Associated Press

CAIRO — Fighting between Sudan’s military and a notorious paramilitary group forced up to 300,000 people to flee their homes in a province that had been a safe haven for families displaced by the devastating conflict in the northeastern African country, the U.N. said Thursday. The U.N. food agency said that it had provided assistance to 800,000 people in the …

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1 year ago

Sexual violence still a major threat as Sudan’s conflict grinds on

Al Jazeera

Cairo, Egypt – While sexual and gender-based violence has increased notably in Sudan during the fighting that has torn the country apart since April, it has been an epidemic there long before April 15, according to Sara Musa, an activist with the Darfur Women’s Forum. Non-Arab communities, such as the Masalit, in West Darfur are particularly vulnerable to SGBV, Ahmed …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Fears of all-out ethnic war rise in Sudan’s Darfur

Al Jazeera

Doha, Qatar – The next major battle in Sudan’s civil war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces could spiral into all-out ethnic violence that puts entire communities at risk, residents, experts and aid groups told Al Jazeera. Over the last week, the Joint Protection Forces – five mostly non-Arab armed groups – deployed hundreds of reinforcements about …

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1 year, 1 month ago

‘Corpses on streets’: Sudan’s RSF kills 1,300 in Darfur, monitors say

Al Jazeera

The mass killing might be the largest in the civil war that erupted in April, based on reports from monitors. “There were so many corpses in the streets.” The latest atrocities are part of a wider campaign by the RSF and its allied militias to eradicate the non-Arab Masalit tribe from West Darfur, according to activists and survivors. There is …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Sudan’s RSF closes in on capturing all of Darfur

Al Jazeera

The armed group’s takeover could leading to a new wave of rights abuses and atrocities against civilians, experts fear. “The RSF’s intention is to find a justification to steal everything people own such as their cars and belongings,” said Mohamad Nyala, a journalist from the region who spoke to Al Jazeera from Nairobi, Kenya. The UN Human Rights Office found …

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1 year, 4 months ago

With no end to the fighting, Sudanese find refuge at camps in Chad

Al Jazeera

The Sudanese state has turned on itself, leaving humanitarian workers to help civilians trying to survive. I arrived at the Adre border crossing with only four of my children,” Mariama said, referring to the Chadian city on the Sudan-Chad border where more than 280,000 people have fled since Sudan’s conflict broke out 100 days ago, according to the aid group …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Sudan air crash: 9, including 4 soldiers killed due to technical failure

Live Mint

Clashes flared in parts of Sudan on the 100th day of the war on Sunday as mediation attempts by regional and international powers failed to find a path out of an increasingly intractable conflict. Amid this, another incident surfaced where a civilian plane crashed at Port Sudan airport leading to the death of nine people, including four military personnel, the …

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1 year, 5 months ago

RSF atrocities pile up in Darfur after 100 days of Sudan fighting

Al Jazeera

The RSF and Arab militias are accused of killing lawyers, human rights monitors, doctors and non-Arab tribal leaders. Targeting the Intelligentsia The RSF and Arab militias are accused of deliberately killing lawyers, human rights monitors, doctors and non-Arab tribal leaders, according to rights groups and local monitors. “The person… close to the RSF, he told me that, as well as …

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1 year, 5 months ago

16 civilians killed in rocket fire in Sudan's Darfur: Report

Hindustan Times

At least 16 people were reportedly killed in an exchange of rocket fire between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in the Darfur region, Al Jazeera reported. The Darfur Bar Association added that at least one man was killed by a sniper. Besides, there were reports of snipers targeting people in West Darfur, including its capital of el-Geneina, …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Fears of ethnic cleansing mount in Sudan’s West Darfur

Al Jazeera

Multiple ceasefires and international mediation efforts have failed to stop the conflict from escalating. “We express our deep concern over these crimes and violations committed by militias against civilians and we demand international protection for the state of West Darfur,” said the Roots Organisation for Human Rights and Monitoring Violations, a local civil society group from West Darfur. Several international …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Sudanese continue to flee Darfur violence in dire circumstances

Al Jazeera

Thousands of Sudanese flock to Chad as UN calls for access to western Sudan to deliver much-needed aid amid humanitarian crisis. Thousands of people continue to pour into Chad fleeing escalating violence in Sudan’s West Darfur state, with a United Nations official seeking access to provide urgent medical supplies, food aid and other assistance to the war-ravaged region amid a …

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1 year, 6 months ago

How fighting in Sudan’s Darfur could worsen W Africa insecurity

Al Jazeera

Since Sudan erupted into a conflict in mid-April between the army and a paramilitary group, most international attention has focused on the intense battle for the capital, Khartoum. Meanwhile, with reports emerging early on in Sudan’s crisis that Russian private military contractor Wagner Group was providing tactical support to the RSF, analysts said the possibility of Chad becoming a base …

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1 year, 6 months ago

‘As the night descended, they came and killed’: Sudan’s other war

Al Jazeera

West Darfur has long been the stage for intercommunal violence between Arab and Black African communities, such as the Masalit. In 2003, what used to be competition over water and land turned into a brutal war as Sudan's then-President Omar al-Bashir armed Arab militias to suppress a rebellion led by non-Arab communities. In 2019, Hemedti collaborated with the military to …

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1 year, 7 months ago

No escape, no aid as fighting intensifies in Sudan’s West Darfur

Al Jazeera

While attention has focused on the conflict in Khartoum, an uptick in violence in el-Geneina is terrifying residents. “They are killing all residents … and committing crimes against humanity,” said Jamal Khamis, a human rights monitor in el-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur. I’m a citizen that has humanity.” False promises Months after al-Bashir fell from power following a popular …

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1 year, 7 months ago

Q&A: ‘Bullets and shells are flying everywhere’ in Sudan

Al Jazeera

This Q&A was originally published on Reddit and has been edited for length and clarity I am Hiba Morgan and I’ve been on the ground in Sudan’s capital since fighting broke out between two rival Sudanese generals on April 15. The West was so focused and determined to keep people out they didn’t care who they have sent their money …

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

A massacre, an exodus from Darfur and years of rehab for Sudanese refugees

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

Sudan war could lead to more ethnic killings in volatile Darfur region

Famine looms in Sudan

Sudan’s Hemedti embraced abroad as he terrorises civilians at home

‘They’re going to kill us’: Sudan’s army targets civilians on ethnic basis

Sudan’s feared paramilitary leader signals ambition to rule the country

Sudan’s civilians pick up arms, as RSF gains and army stumbles

UN says up to 300,000 Sudanese fled their homes after a notorious group seized their safe haven

Sexual violence still a major threat as Sudan’s conflict grinds on

Fears of all-out ethnic war rise in Sudan’s Darfur

‘Corpses on streets’: Sudan’s RSF kills 1,300 in Darfur, monitors say

Sudan’s RSF closes in on capturing all of Darfur

With no end to the fighting, Sudanese find refuge at camps in Chad

Sudan air crash: 9, including 4 soldiers killed due to technical failure

RSF atrocities pile up in Darfur after 100 days of Sudan fighting

16 civilians killed in rocket fire in Sudan's Darfur: Report

Fears of ethnic cleansing mount in Sudan’s West Darfur

Sudanese continue to flee Darfur violence in dire circumstances

How fighting in Sudan’s Darfur could worsen W Africa insecurity

‘As the night descended, they came and killed’: Sudan’s other war

No escape, no aid as fighting intensifies in Sudan’s West Darfur

Q&A: ‘Bullets and shells are flying everywhere’ in Sudan