Army leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s about-face on joining talks dampens hopes they will lead to the end of 16-month war. A new round of talks aimed at ending a 16-month civil war in Sudan that has sparked a humanitarian crisis in the Northeast African country has begun in Switzerland despite…
US envoy says talks to end the 15-month war will launch in Geneva on Wednesday, even if Sudan’s army does not attend. Talks to end Sudan’s 15-month war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) will move forward in Geneva this week, United States…
We take a look at how 16 months of brutal fighting have plunged Sudan into one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history. Sudan’s humanitarian crisis is rapidly escalating. With at least 750,000 people on the brink of starvation, NGOs warn that a disaster on a scale not…
A humanitarian crisis is happening in the country that many say could have been prevented. Famine has been declared in Zamzam, a camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur region. The crisis is the culmination of 15 months of a war that has claimed tens…
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan says he will not attend talks with RSF in Switzerland after attack on military graduation. Sudan’s army leader, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, says the military will not join talks next month in Switzerland aimed at ending more than a year of fighting with the paramilitary Rapid Support…
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. Forces commanded by both the Rapid Support…
Sudan broke off relations with Iran in 2016 after Saudi Arabia’s embassy in Tehran was attacked. Sudan’s de facto leader has received an Iranian ambassador and sent his own to Tehran, cementing a rapprochement after an eight-year rupture. Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Sunday received Hassan Shah Hosseini,…
The brutal war the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has been waging against the Sudanese people for the past 15 months, and the unprecedented atrocities it committed in the process, have so far received an inadequate response from the international community. True, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2736,…
Football became a means of resistance to French colonial rule in Algeria and a counter to British colonialism in Sudan. Football was a means of resistance in the fight for independence in French colonial Algeria and British-ruled Sudan. The European powers introduced their sports to their colonies for their own…
The war in Sudan is approaching its 16th month, with tens of thousands of people killed and millions displaced in what international organisations say is the world’s worst displacement crisis. Fighting erupted between forces loyal to the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April…
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