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1 week, 5 days ago

Dozens of civilians killed in two days of intense fighting in Sudan

More people killed in North Darfur and Greater Khartoum attacks as fighting between the army and the RSF turns bloodier. Dozens of people have been killed over two days in Sudan as fighting between the army and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces intensifies, according to officials, activists and rights groups. On Monday, an air attack on a busy market …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Here's what life is like in a city in the grip of Sudan’s brutal war

NPR

Here's what life is like in a city in the grip of Sudan’s brutal war toggle caption Luke Dray for NPR OMDURMAN, Sudan — A drive from the sandy northern outskirts through Sudan’s once-vibrant city of Omdurman passes by shoots of normal life reemerging from the worst moments of war. toggle caption Luke Dray for NPR Africa Hundreds of people …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Warring parties committing ‘widespread sexual violence’ in Sudan: HRW

Al Jazeera

Some instances of sexual and gender-based violence were so severe they led to death, according to the rights group. The warring parties in the conflict in Sudan have engaged in widespread sexual and gender-based violence in the capital Khartoum, an NGO has reported. “It finds that warring parties have subjected women and girls, from ages nine through to at least …

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6 months ago

Nine Million People Have Fled. Up to 150,000 Are Dead. No One Is Talking About It.

Slate

In Sudan, a long-building crisis has turned a political dispute between two military generals into a humanitarian catastrophe of unimaginable scale. So while their primary concern might be to support their relatives within Sudan, or to help them leave Sudan, they’re Now, after a year of war, what’s happened is the Sudanese people who have been funding kitchens have begun …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Birth, death, escape: Three women's struggle through Sudan's war

Al Jazeera

With the help of the mustanfireen, the Sudanese army has begun to turn the tide in the war. The mustanfireen looted furniture from empty houses as well as aid from a convoy that received army clearance to pass through Omdurman to reach Darfur, according to a worker at a UN agency who spoke on condition of anonymity to not jeopardise …

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9 months, 1 week ago

Sudan army regains control of national TV and radio headquarters from RSF

Al Jazeera

Sudan’s military posts videos online showing its soldiers inside the headquarters in the city of Omdurman. Sudan’s army has taken control of the country’s national radio and television headquarters from the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, the army said in a statement. The military posted videos online showing its soldiers inside the headquarters on Tuesday in Omdurman, a city across …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Artillery fire has killed 11 people and wounded 90 in a major Sudanese city, aid group 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. Read our privacy policy Heavy artillery fire killed at …

Sudan Group Aid Msf Omdurman Khartoum Major City

1 year, 3 months ago

Exclusive: Ukraine’s special services ‘likely’ behind strikes on Wagner-backed forces in Sudan, a Ukrainian military source says

CNN

Kyiv, Ukraine and N'Djamena, Chad CNN — Ukrainian special services were likely behind a series of drone strikes and a ground operation directed against a Wagner-backed militia near Sudan’s capital, a CNN investigation has found, raising the prospect that the fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has spread far from the frontlines. Speaking to CNN, a Ukrainian military source described …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Fighting in Sudan’s Omdurman intensifies as displaced tops 4 million

Al Jazeera

The army is trying to recapture territory lost to the RSF by taking back control of a bridge across the Nile. Back then, a rivalry between General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Vice President Mohammedi “Hemedti” Hamdan Dagalo – the heads of the military and of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces respectively – broke out into war. The army has launched …

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1 year, 4 months ago

War in Sudan kills more than twice as many civilians in Khartoum as officially reported

Hindustan Times

In early May, a loud explosion rocked Shambat, a neighborhood to the north of Sudan's capital of Khartoum. The seven victims of the Shambat strike share something in common with many of the fatalities in the war that has ravaged Sudan since mid-April: They are not included in the official death count in Khartoum State, which has seen most of …

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1 year, 5 months ago

UN warns Sudan of a 'full-scale civil war' after air strike kills 22

Hindustan Times

Conflict-torn Sudan is on the brink of a "full-scale civil war" that could destabilise the entire region, the United Nations warned Sunday, after an air strike on a residential area killed around two dozen civilians. The health ministry reported "22 dead and a large number of wounded among the civilians" from what it described as an air strike Saturday on …

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1 year, 5 months ago

UN warns of ‘full-scale civil war’ in Sudan, Egypt to host summit

Al Jazeera

Diplomatic efforts to halt fighting between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary have so far proved ineffective. The United Nations has warned Sudan is on the brink of a “full-scale civil war”, as Egypt said it would host a summit on July 13 to discuss ways to end a 12-week conflict between rival Sudanese military factions. Diplomatic efforts …

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1 year, 5 months ago

'Like hell': Sudan airstrike kills 22 as fight between rival generals continues

India Today

An airstrike in a Sudanese city on Saturday killed at least 22 people, health authorities said, in one of the deadliest air attacks yet in the three months of fighting between the country’s rival generals. At the time of the attack early Saturday, the military was hitting the RSF, which took people’s houses as shields, and the RSF fired anti-aircraft …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Twenty-two killed in air strike on Sudanese city Omdurman

ABC

An air strike in a Sudanese city has killed at least 22 people, health authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks yet in the three months of fighting between Sudan's rival generals. Key points: The military was hitting Rapid Support Forces, which was using people's houses as shields The attack was one of the deadliest in the fighting in …

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1 year, 5 months ago

At least 22 killed in air strike on Sudan's Omdurman

The Hindu

At least 22 people were killed and scores injured in an air strike by Sudan's Army on western Omdurman, the Khartoum state Health Ministry said on July 8, as the war between the country's military factions entered its 12th week. While the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces quickly dominated the capital Khartoum and its sister cities Omdurman and Bahri after fighting …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Airstrike in Sudanese city kills at least 22, officials say, amid fighting between rival generals

Associated Press

CAIRO — An airstrike in a Sudanese city on Saturday killed at least 22 people, health authorities said, in one of the deadliest air attacks yet in the three months of fighting between the country’s rival generals. At the time of the attack early Saturday, the military was hitting the RSF, which took people’s houses as shields, and the RSF …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Air raid kills at least 22 in Sudan’s city of Omdurman

Al Jazeera

Attack in Omdurman was one of the deadliest since fighting broke out between the Sudanese army and RSF armed group on April 15. An air raid on a Sudanese city has killed at least 22 people, health authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks yet in the weeks-long fighting between Sudan’s army and a renegade paramilitary force. The RSF, …

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1 year, 5 months ago

At least 22 killed in airstrike in Sudan

CNN

CNN — At least 22 people have been killed and dozens injured in an airstrike in the city of Omdurman, Sudan, according to a Reuters report citing the Sudanese ministry of health. In a statement released Saturday, the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces said that more than 31 people were killed with homes demolished and dozens of civilians injured. “We …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Fighting rages in Sudan as army tries to cut RSF supply lines

Al Jazeera

The army launches air strikes as heavy artillery fire and ground battles are reported in Omdurman. Fierce battles have broken out across Omdurman, a city across the Nile from Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, as the army tries to cut off supply routes used by its paramilitary rivals to bring in reinforcements. The army launched air strikes and fired heavy artillery on …

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘Strikes getting worse’: No sight of peace as clashes in Sudan intensify

Hindustan Times

Clashes between Sudan's army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces intensified on Sunday, as the war in the country's capital and western regions entered its 12th week with no attempts in sight to bring a peaceful end to the conflict. Army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan last week called on young men to join the fight against the RSF and on Sunday …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Air raids hit Sudan capital despite Eid truce

Al Jazeera

Residents and local reports say intense fighting continuing in Omdurman on Wednesday afternoon as UN urges the warring Sudanese army and paramilitary RSF group to maintain the ceasefire. Air raids and anti-aircraft fire struck Sudan’s capital Khartoum according to residents, despite warring parties declaring truces for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. The three cities that make up the wider …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Fighting surges in Khartoum as Sudan war enters 11th week

Al Jazeera

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces says it has seized the headquarters of a heavily armed police unit in southern Khartoum. Clashes, artillery fire and air raids surged in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, witnesses said, as a war between rival military factions that has displaced 2.5 million people and caused a humanitarian crisis entered its 11th week. Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Heavy clashes, artillery firing rages in Sudan's Khartoum after 24-hour truce expires

India Today

Heavy clashes and artillery fire erupted across Sudan's capital Khartoum on Sunday and residents reported air strikes soon after the end of a 24-hour ceasefire that had brought a brief lull to eight weeks of fighting between rival military factions. Witnesses said the fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces was some of the heaviest for weeks …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Shelling, looting in Sudan's capital as military factions battle for eighth week

India Today

Shelling and heavy clashes hit areas of Sudan's capital on Monday, residents said, with reports of spreading lawlessness in Khartoum and in the western region of Darfur after more than seven weeks of conflict between rival military factions. On Monday, residents reported a second consecutive day of fighting across the three cities that make up the nation's wider capital - …

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Dozens of civilians killed in two days of intense fighting in Sudan

Here's what life is like in a city in the grip of Sudan’s brutal war

Warring parties committing ‘widespread sexual violence’ in Sudan: HRW

Nine Million People Have Fled. Up to 150,000 Are Dead. No One Is Talking About It.

Birth, death, escape: Three women's struggle through Sudan's war

Sudan army regains control of national TV and radio headquarters from RSF

Artillery fire has killed 11 people and wounded 90 in a major Sudanese city, aid group says

Exclusive: Ukraine’s special services ‘likely’ behind strikes on Wagner-backed forces in Sudan, a Ukrainian military source says

Fighting in Sudan’s Omdurman intensifies as displaced tops 4 million

War in Sudan kills more than twice as many civilians in Khartoum as officially reported

UN warns Sudan of a 'full-scale civil war' after air strike kills 22

UN warns of ‘full-scale civil war’ in Sudan, Egypt to host summit

'Like hell': Sudan airstrike kills 22 as fight between rival generals continues

Twenty-two killed in air strike on Sudanese city Omdurman

At least 22 killed in air strike on Sudan's Omdurman

Airstrike in Sudanese city kills at least 22, officials say, amid fighting between rival generals

Air raid kills at least 22 in Sudan’s city of Omdurman

At least 22 killed in airstrike in Sudan

Fighting rages in Sudan as army tries to cut RSF supply lines

‘Strikes getting worse’: No sight of peace as clashes in Sudan intensify

Air raids hit Sudan capital despite Eid truce

Fighting surges in Khartoum as Sudan war enters 11th week

Heavy clashes, artillery firing rages in Sudan's Khartoum after 24-hour truce expires

Shelling, looting in Sudan's capital as military factions battle for eighth week