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U.N. Urges Action To End Sudan's Deadly Conflict

The United Nations condemns external support fueling conflict in Sudan, calling for urgent international intervention to protect civilians and facilitate p...

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

Paramilitary group’s head of operations and West Darfur commander have been slapped with travel bans and asset freezes.

Al Jazeera

Sudan’s civil war grows more brutal as UN details horrific sexual violence

Sudan’s brutal civil war shows no signs of slowing, with reports of escalating atrocities and rampant sexual violence threatening to destroy entire communities. Harrowing accounts from a UN report detail widespread abuses, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) implicated in a surge of attacks targeting women and children.

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Head of UN-backed team of experts cites paramilitary force in Sudan for sexual violence as war rages

The head of a U.N.-backed fact-finding team looking into human rights violations and abuses in Sudan said Friday it found the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces responsible for large-scale sexual violence in areas that it controls

The Independent UK

IMF Raises Concerns About Effects Of Sudan Conflict On Neighbors

The war in Sudan is likely to cause heavy economic damage in neighboring countries, the IMF's deputy director for Africa, Catherine Pattillo, told AFP. "What is going on there for the people in Sudan is just so heart wrenching and devastating.

International Business Times

Is Sudan’s army regaining ground lost in the civil war?

Sudan’s army has launched a sweeping offensive to retake some major cities, but will it succeed?

Al Jazeera

Sudan’s brutal war has become many wars, making peace even harder to reach

Sudan’s war runs grimly on. The two main protagonists (though there are others involved) are each claiming local victories. The Sudanese army appears to be slowly regaining control of the ruined capital, Khartoum, and has recovered some ground it lost elsewhere in Sudan. And the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…

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Sudan military’s strike on market in capital kills at least 23: Rescuers

Market is near one of the main camps in the Sudanese capital where the paramilitary RSF has been fighting the military.

Al Jazeera

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

The United States has sanctioned a senior leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for supplying weapons for the 17-month-long war, which has killed more than 20,000 people

The Independent UK

Sudan at war: the art of peace talks and why they often fail

High-level peace talks took place in August 2024 to negotiate a much-needed ceasefire in Sudan. Unfortunately, nothing tangible came out of the talks held in Switzerland and co-hosted by the US and Saudi Arabia.

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Is Sudan’s army on the verge of recapturing Khartoum?

Sudan’s army launched a major assault on Khartoum in a bid to recapture the capital from the Rapid Support Forces.

Al Jazeera

Air strikes in Khartoum as Sudan army attacks paramilitary positions

Air strikes and shelling rocked Khartoum on Thursday as the army reportedly attacked paramilitary positions throughout the Sudanese capital.

Radio France Internationale

Sudan’s army launches major offensive on Khartoum

The army lost control of most of the capital to the paramilitary RSF at the start of the conflict last April.

Al Jazeera

Sudan is burning and foreign powers are benefiting – what’s in it for the UAE

The United Nations has accused foreign players of prolonging the war in Sudan, making it harder for the country to find peace. The fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces started in April 2023. It was sparked by two generals competing for power after a failed…

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Looting of the Sudan National Museum – more is at stake than priceless ancient treasures

Reports continue to emerge of the alleged looting of tens of thousands of artefacts from the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum. The museum, near the confluence of the White and the Blue Niles, holds a history of the region, home to ancient civilisations, temples and pyramids. But it has been…

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Human Rights Watch Accuses Sudan Paramilitary Of Sexual Violence

Human Rights Watch accuses Sudan's paramilitary group of sexual violence against women, urging UN intervention in the conflict.

Radio France Internationale

Sudan's warring parties to participate in US-brokered peace talks

The United States has invited the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for US-mediated ceasefire talks. They will start on 14 August, in Switzerland, according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

The Conversation

How militia groups capture states and ruin countries: the case of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces

The rise of Sudan’s most notorious paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, shows how armed groups can infiltrate state institutions – often with disastrous results for society.

France 24

Sudan's warring parties in Geneva for UN-hosted talks on possible local ceasefires

Sudan’s warring parties have arrived in Geneva at the invitation of the United Nations to discuss the protection of civilians through possible local ceasefires, UN officials said Thursday. But one side did not show up for the talks on the first day.

International Business Times

Sudan One Of World's 'Worst Crises' In Decades: Medical Charity

The ongoing civil war in Sudan has provoked one of the world's worst humanitarian crises in decades, the international chief of the medical charity Doctors Without Borders said Thursday.

France 24

World Refugee Day: With Sudanese refugees fleeing war for South Sudan

The conflict in Sudan between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which broke out on April 15, 2023, has caused the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and the displacement of over 9 million people. More than 650,000 of them have now fled to neighbouring South Sudan. These survivors have…

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