MYSTERIOUS: 13 - What They Never Told You

Countries need higher education to rebuild after conflict – study finds foreign aid isn’t going where it’s needed

Higher education institutions are frequent casualties in violent conflicts. In Palestine, Ukraine and Sudan, to mention only a few recent examples, university campuses have been bombed. Academics, staff and students have been killed, injured or displaced. Teaching, learning and research have been undermined or come to a halt.

The Conversation · Feb 5

UK sanctions paramilitary group leaders over atrocities in Sudan

The foreign secretary says the government wants to ‘dismantle the war machine’

The Independent UK · Feb 5

Famine spreads to more towns in Sudan’s Darfur region, hunger experts warn as war rages on

A global hunger monitoring group says that famine is spreading in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region and has now engulfed two more towns there

The Independent UK · Feb 5

UAE signs $20 million agreement with UN World Food Programme for Sudan

The UAE has signed a new $20 million cooperation agreement with the UN World Food Programme to provide urgent food assistance to conflict-affected communities in Sudan. This initiative aims to address critical food security needs for vulnerable groups, including displaced populations, and reinforces the UAE's ongoing humanitarian commitment to the…

The Times of India · Feb 1

Takeaways from AP's report on a Sudanese doctor's escape from a Darfur city under rebel attack

Three months after paramilitary fighters overran the Sudanese city of el-Fasher, a doctor is providing a rare first-person account of the attack

The Independent UK · Jan 31

A Sudanese doctor recounts his harrowing escape from a Darfur city under rebel bombardment

Three months after paramilitary fighters overran the Sudanese city of el-Fasher, a doctor is providing a rare first-person account of the attack

The Independent UK · Jan 31

Race to save Sudan's plundered heritage as museums fall victim to war

In almost three years of civil war in Sudan, the country's museums have been ravaged, with thousands of its archaeological treasures looted and feared trafficked. Researchers in Sudan and beyond are racing to catalogue and recover the losses, estimated at $110 million.

Radio France Internationale · Jan 25

After accepting US deportees, South Sudan wanted sanctions relief for top official, documents show

After agreeing to accept deportees from the United States last year, South Sudan sent a list of requests to Washington that included American support for the prosecution of an opposition leader and sanctions relief for a senior official accused of diverting over a billion dollars in public funds

The Independent UK · Jan 24

‘It has been overwhelming’: Sudanese friends complete 900-mile UK walk

Giel Malual and John Kuei trekked from Dungeness to John o’Groats to raise funds for new schools in Sudan

The Guardian - UK · Jan 22

Drone attacks shock city in central Sudan as war inches closer

Drone strikes have intensified in and around al-Obeid in central Sudan as the country's devastating civil war closes in on the army-controlled city, causing significant civilian deaths in at least two cases, residents say.

Radio France Internationale · Jan 22