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Visualising the war in Sudan: Conflict, control and displacement

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 …

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1 month, 1 week 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, …

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1 month, 1 week ago

US sanctions Sudanese paramilitary commander for his role in West Darfur violence

Associated Press

CAIRO — The United States has sanctioned a commander of Sudan’s paramilitary forces, saying he played a leading role in the ongoing violence against civilians in West Darfur. The U.S. Department of Treasury said in a statement on Tuesday that Abdel Rahman Juma Barakallah led the Rapid Support Forces campaign in West Darfur, committing human rights abuses against civilians, including …

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1 month, 1 week ago

US sanctions RSF commander accused of rights abuses in Sudan’s Darfur

Al Jazeera

Abdel Rahman Juma Barkalla is accused of leading a campaign marred by sexual and ethnically motivated violence. The United States has imposed sanctions on Abdel Rahman Juma Barkalla, whom it says is responsible for human rights abuses in West Darfur. The US Department of the Treasury outlined a series of sanctions against the commander, head of the Rapid Support Forces’ …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

UN sanctions 2 generals from Sudan’s paramilitary force for key roles in war against the military

Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions Friday on two generals in Sudan’s paramilitary force for their key roles in the war against the country’s military that has seen ethnically motivated attacks and atrocities. The council’s sanctions committee added Maj. Gen. Osman Mohamed Hamid Mohamed, head of the Rapid Support Forces’ operations department, and Maj. Gen. Abdel …

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UN Security Council sanctions two generals from Sudan’s paramilitary RSF

Al Jazeera

Paramilitary group’s head of operations and West Darfur commander have been slapped with travel bans and asset freezes. A United Nations Security Council committee has sanctioned two generals from Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for destabilising the country through violence and human rights abuses. These are the first UN sanctions in the current war in Sudan, which erupted on April …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

UN sanctions two generals from Sudan's paramilitary force for key roles in war against military

New Indian Express

The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions Friday on two generals in Sudan’s paramilitary force for their key roles in the war against the country’s military that has seen ethnically motivated attacks and atrocities. The council’s sanctions committee added Maj. Gen. Osman Mohamed Hamid Mohamed, head of the Rapid Support Forces' operations department, and Maj. Gen. Abdel Rahman Juma Barkalla, …

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5 months 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. …

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6 months, 2 weeks 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 …

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7 months 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 …

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7 months, 2 weeks 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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7 months, 2 weeks 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 …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

First UN food aid in months arrives in Sudan’s Darfur as famine looms

Al Jazeera

The United Nations has begun distributing food in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region for the first time in months amid warnings of impending famine caused by a yearlong war and lack of access to food aid. The UN’s World Food Programme said two aid convoys crossed the border from Chad in late March, carrying food and nutrition assistance for about 250,000 …

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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, 2 weeks ago

How can so many in the West so easily ignore genocide?

Al Jazeera

Responses to genocide are often determined by where the crime is committed, and what the victims look like. They have raised the alarm that there is a systematic campaign to entirely erase “an indigenous Darfuri group” and that the international community must stop the “genocide going on in West Darfur”. When this presumption is superimposed on the imagery of masked, …

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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

US, partners condemn growing violence in Sudan’s Darfur region

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The United States, Britain and Norway on Friday condemned rising violence and human rights abuses that some claim amount to ethnic cleansing in Sudan’s western Darfur region. The three countries, known as “the Troika,” said in a statement that the Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces must end the fighting that has killed at least 800 people …

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1 year, 1 month ago

More than 800 Sudanese reportedly killed in attack on Darfur town, UN says

Associated Press

CAIRO — Fighters from a paramilitary force and their allied Arab militias rampaged through a town in Sudan’s war-ravaged region of Darfur, reportedly killing more than 800 people in a multiday attack, doctors and the U.N. said. The attack on Ardamata in West Darfur province earlier this month was the latest in a series of atrocities in Darfur that marked …

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1 year, 1 month ago

More than 800 Sudanese reportedly killed this month in attack on Darfur town, U.N. says

LA Times

The ruins of a livestock market in El Fasher, capital of Sudan’s North Darfur province, on Sept. 1. Fighters from a paramilitary force and their allied Arab militias rampaged through a town in Sudan’s war-ravaged region of Darfur, reportedly killing more than 800 people in a multi-day attack, doctors and the U.N. said. The attack on Ardamata in West Darfur …

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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, 4 months ago

Shot at while they drowned. Executed in the desert. Those who collected the bodies recount ‘one of the worst days’ in Darfur’s genocide-scarred history

CNN

Editor’s Note: This report includes a graphic image and details of violence. “The last time we recorded the death toll in Geneina it was 884,” one local humanitarian worker from El Geneina, who works for a Western non-profit organization, told CNN. The footage showed RSF West Darfur commander General Abdelrahman Juma — who also appeared in the West Darfur governor’s …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Sudan conflict brings new atrocities to Darfur as militias kill, rape, burn homes in rampages

Associated Press

CAIRO — Amna al-Nour narrowly escaped death twice. “They want to uproot us all.” Al-Nour and her three children now live in a school-turned-refugee housing inside Chad, among more than 260,000 Sudanese, mostly women and children, who have fled what survivors and rights groups say is a new explosion of atrocities in the large western region of Sudan. “This spiraling …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Sudan conflict brings new atrocities to Darfur as militias kill, rape, burn homes in rampages

ABC

Amna al-Nour narrowly escaped death twice: when militias torched her family's home in Sudan's Darfur region and then two months later when paramilitary fighters stopped her and others trying to reach the border with neighbouring Chad. Key points: Rights groups say there is a spike in atrocities in the large western region of Sudan Tensions are rising due to a …

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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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Visualising the war in Sudan: Conflict, control and displacement

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

US sanctions Sudanese paramilitary commander for his role in West Darfur violence

US sanctions RSF commander accused of rights abuses in Sudan’s Darfur

UN sanctions 2 generals from Sudan’s paramilitary force for key roles in war against the military

UN Security Council sanctions two generals from Sudan’s paramilitary RSF

UN sanctions two generals from Sudan's paramilitary force for key roles in war against military

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

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

The new cycle of atrocities in Darfur must be stopped

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

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

First UN food aid in months arrives in Sudan’s Darfur as famine looms

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

How can so many in the West so easily ignore genocide?

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

US, partners condemn growing violence in Sudan’s Darfur region

More than 800 Sudanese reportedly killed in attack on Darfur town, UN says

More than 800 Sudanese reportedly killed this month in attack on Darfur town, U.N. says

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

Shot at while they drowned. Executed in the desert. Those who collected the bodies recount ‘one of the worst days’ in Darfur’s genocide-scarred history

Sudan conflict brings new atrocities to Darfur as militias kill, rape, burn homes in rampages

Sudan conflict brings new atrocities to Darfur as militias kill, rape, burn homes in rampages

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