Sudan
20 Apr
Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in “extreme and immediate danger” as worsening violence advances and threatens to “unleash bloody inter-communal strife throughout Darfur,” top UN officials warned the Security Council.
12 Apr
Sudan has been brought to its knees by a war between the regular army and rival paramilitaries that has killed thousands of people and displaced 8.5 million more.
6 Mar
Sudan's nearly 11-month war between rival generals "risks triggering the world's largest hunger crisis", the United Nations' World Food Programme warned Wednesday.
5 Feb
Nineteen people, one of them a humanitarian worker, were killed in ethnic clashes over the weekend in the Abyei region straddling the border between Sudan and South Sudan and claimed by both, local authorities said
29 Jan
Fighting between rival communities in a disputed region claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan has killed 54 people, including two UN peacekeepers, the United Nations said on Monday, calling for calm.
17 Jan
Sudan's army-aligned government on Tuesday suspended ties with the east African bloc IGAD, accusing it of "violating" the country's sovereignty by inviting a rival paramilitary chief to a summit.
12 Jan
Fighting between rival Sudanese forces including air strikes on the capital Khartoum have killed at least 33 civilians, pro-democracy lawyers said overnight to Friday.
23 Nov
The Jigawa government has approved the payment of 65,000 dollars for the transfer of ten students who hail from the state from Sudan which is currently engulfed in crisis.
20 Nov
A spate of attacks in a disputed region claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan has left 32 people dead including a UN peacekeeper, local officials said.
2 Nov
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday warned Sudan's paramilitary force against what Washington said were signs of an "imminent large-scale attack" in North Darfur's capital where thousands have fled fighting.
26 Oct 2023
Sudan's warring parties on Thursday resumed talks in Saudi Arabia aimed at ending a conflict that has raged for over six months and left thousands dead, the Saudi foreign ministry said.
13 Sep 2023
Sudan's army chief was headed to Turkey Wednesday on his fifth foreign visit since late August as he vies for legitimacy in a devastating power struggle with his former deputy. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, who has been de facto head of state since he led a 2021 coup, will hold talks with Turkish President Recep…
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