Sudanese refugees face gruelling wait in overcrowded South Sudan camps | Conflict News

Sudanese refugees face gruelling wait in overcrowded South Sudan camps | Conflict News

A new truck arrives in the South Sudanese town of Renk, packed with dozens of elderly men, women and children, their exhausted faces betraying the strain of their traumatic journey out of war-ravaged Sudan. They are among more than half a million people who have crossed the border into South…

UNICEF says 700,000 children in Sudan face life-threatening malnutrition | UNICEF News

UNICEF says 700,000 children in Sudan face life-threatening malnutrition | UNICEF News

As the war continues, the UN agency warns tens of thousands of children will ‘likely die’ without more aid. At least 700,000 children in Sudan are likely to suffer from the worst form of malnutrition this year, and tens of thousands could die, the United Nations children’s agency has warned….

UN calls for .1bn in aid for Sudan, says crisis needs world’s attention | Humanitarian Crises News

UN calls for $4.1bn in aid for Sudan, says crisis needs world’s attention | Humanitarian Crises News

The 10-month conflict has created one of the world’s ‘largest displacement and protection crises’, UN agencies say. The United Nations has appealed for $4.1bn to meet the humanitarian needs of civilians in war-torn Sudan and to support those who fled the conflict to neighbouring countries. Ten months since the war…

ICC accuses Sudan and rebels of Darfur war crimes | Conflict News

ICC accuses Sudan and rebels of Darfur war crimes | Conflict News

Sudan’s army and its rival paramilitary force are committing war crimes in Darfur, the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) chief prosecutor has said. Karim Khan launched a war crimes investigation into the renewed conflict in July. On Monday, he reported to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) that he had “grounds…

Could Red Sea attacks push up prices and fuel inflation? | Business and Economy

Could Red Sea attacks push up prices and fuel inflation? | Business and Economy

Houthi rebels have attacked vessels transporting goods through Bab al-Mandeb strait that they say are linked to Israel. Inflation was expected to ease in 2024 after more than 18 months of interest rate hikes by central banks. The most aggressive monetary tightening in decades. But attacks by Houthi rebels in…

Sudan’s Hemedti embraced abroad as he terrorises civilians at home | Features News

Sudan’s Hemedti embraced abroad as he terrorises civilians at home | Features News

On January 6, Sudanese paramilitary leader Mohamad Hamdan Dagalo, better known as “Hemedti”, visited the memorial in Kigali that commemorates the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Hemedti toured the museum solemnly, his sympathy-filled face belying the fact that his paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are accused of similar atrocities in Sudan’s civil…

EU sanctions six companies accused of ‘undermining stability’ in Sudan | Conflict News

EU sanctions six companies accused of ‘undermining stability’ in Sudan | Conflict News

European Council says the firms sanctioned are linked to weapons procurement and manufacturing in war-ravaged country. The European Council (EC) has imposed sanctions on six companies for their alleged involvement in financing and arming the warring Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The six entities were responsible…

‘We cannot trust the Janjaweed’: Sudan’s capital ravaged by RSF rule | Conflict

‘We cannot trust the Janjaweed’: Sudan’s capital ravaged by RSF rule | Conflict

Nine months of civil war between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army have turned Sudan’s capital Khartoum into a plundered, lawless and bloodied shell of its historic self, according to current and former residents. For months now, the RSF has controlled most of the city, looting markets,…