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HISTORICAL FACTS: 18 - The Untold Story

Aid agencies in Sudan plead with factions to allow supplies to reach needy

Six trucks of humanitarian supplies looted while airstrikes in Khartoum undermine ceasefire

The Guardian - UK

Clashes rock Sudan ceasefire as UN official seeks aid protection

Martin Griffiths, in visit to the country, seeks pledges from warring sides to allow movement of staff and supplies.

Al Jazeera

Sudan’s warring sides ‘agree seven-day ceasefire’

South Sudan’s foreign ministry, which made the announcement, says the truce will start from Thursday.

Al Jazeera

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Sudan Military Faction Chiefs Agree May 4-11 Truce in Principle

Sudan's warring military factions agreed on Tuesday in principle to a seven-day ceasefire from Thursday, South Sudan announced, as more air strikes and shooting in the Khartoum region disrupted the latest short-term truce. A statement released by the foreign ministry of South Sudan, which had offered to mediate in the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Sudan's warring generals extend theoretical truce but keep fighting

Sudan's warring military factions agreed to a new and longer seven-day ceasefire from Thursday, neighbour and mediator South Sudan said, even as more air strikes and shooting in the Khartoum capital region undercut their latest supposed truce.

Reuters

Over 100,000 refugees crossed from Sudan to neighbouring countries - UN

A United Nations refugee official said on Tuesday that more than 100,000 refugees have now crossed from Sudan to neighbouring countries to escape the conflict that erupted last month.

Reuters

Sudan conflict pushes 100,000 to flee across borders to neighbouring countries

The fighting in Sudan has caused more than 330,000 people to flee their homes within the country, with over 100,000 others escaping over the borders, the United Nations said Tuesday, as gunfire and explosions echoed across the capital despite another ceasefire deal.

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Over 800,000 people could flee unrest in Sudan, UN says

In tonight's edition: The UN's World Food Programme resumes its operations in Sudan, but the conflict continues amid a little-respected truce extension and warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe. Also, Senegal registers the first death from a closely watched outbreak of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. Plus, extremist fighters from the CODECO militia…

France 24

UN agency suspends food aid to Ethiopia's Tigray amid theft

The United Nations food relief agency has suspended aid deliveries to Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region amid an internal investigation into the theft of food meant for hungry people, according to four humanitarian workers

The Independent UK

In Chad, pregnant Sudanese refugees give birth without shelter

Thousands of Sudanese displaced by infighting between the army and a powerful paramilitary group are trooping into Chad.

Al Jazeera

World Food Program Lifts Suspension of Operations in Sudan

The United Nations' World Food Program said on Monday it will immediately lift the suspension of its operations in Sudan that was put in place after the tragic deaths of its team member. "WFP is rapidly resuming our programs to provide the life-saving assistance that many so desperately need right…

Asharq Al-Awsat

World Food Programme lifts suspension of operations in Sudan

The United Nations' World Food Programme said on Monday it will immediately lift the suspension of its operations in Sudan that was put in place after the tragic deaths of its team member.

Reuters

In flight from Sudan, refugees in Chad give birth alone without shelter

At a refugee camp in remote eastern Chad, Amné Moustapha is close to giving birth. Her contractions are dizzying and her feet swell in the baking heat. Her husband is building a shack from sticks and string to shelter their coming newborn.

Reuters

UN chief Guterres dispatches envoy to Sudan amid 'unprecedented' crisis

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is sending an envoy to the Sudan region amid the "unprecedented" situation there, as deadly hostilities enter a third week, his spokesman said Sunday.

France 24

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A race to the border after childbirth as fighting forces Sudanese to flee

As armed militias attacked and pillaged her village near the town of El Geneina in the western Darfur region of Sudan, pregnant 23-year-old Zamzam Adam was stranded, in labour, and alone, as neighbours fled across the border into Chad.

Reuters

UN agency in Chad expects more refugees fleeing from Sudan

The head of the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) in Chad said it expects to see more refugees fleeing across the border from Sudan to escape the fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

Reuters

Little let-up in Khartoum fighting despite Sudan truce declaration

Sporadic shelling rang out late on Friday in Sudan's capital even though warring factions announced a truce, while one force said it was willing to allow airports to reopen for the evacuation of foreign nationals.

Tribune News Service

Sudan’s growing conflict sparks race to evacuate foreigners

Japan, Germany and other nations are struggling to evacuate their citizens from Sudan amid fighting between the army and a paramilitary group, while water, health care and other services are becoming increasingly hard to access.

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Al Jazeera

Millions close to hunger after WFP cuts food aid to Afghanistan

Six million Afghans, the UN agency warns, are one step away from famine as it appeals for more funds for Afghanistan.

Al Jazeera

Darfur on edge as violence spreads amid Sudan power struggle

Witnesses say conflict escalating in Sudanese region as the army and the RSF battle it out for control.

The Independent UK

Sudan death toll nears 100 as satellite images show scale of Khartoum clashes

WHO-run hospitals treating injured civilians out of critical supplies

Reuters

Sudan rival forces battle in capital as UN sees little prospect for mediation now

Sudan's battling factions both claimed to have made gains on Monday as violence cut power and water in the capital, and the U.N. envoy to Sudan said the two sides showed no signs of being willing to negotiate.

Al Jazeera

Fierce fighting continues in Sudan after brief humanitarian pause

Presidents of Kenya, South Sudan and Djibouti to travel to Sudan as clashes between rival military factions rages.

Reuters

World Food Programme halts operations in Sudan after 3 employees killed

The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) said on Sunday it had temporarily halted all operations in Sudan after three of its employees were killed in clashes between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) a day earlier.

The Guardian - UK

UN World Food Programme halts Sudan operations as fighting continues

Three of agency’s workers killed amid two days of violent clashes between army and paramilitary group

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