The cross-border impact of the crisis in Sudan is unfurling along multiple fronts, and action is urgently needed to ease rising tensions that has already resulted in deadly clashes, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for South Sudan told the Security Council on Tuesday. “Now is not the time to take our eyes off the ball […]
SOME diplomatic experts have described a decision by the government to receive Sudanese medical students to conduct practical training in the country as a ‘fresh impetus’ to Tanzania’s diplomatic relations with other countries. Speaking in exclusive interview with the ‘Daily News’ on Tuesday a diplomatic expert, Mr Kitojo Wetengere said that reception of Sudanese students […]
Nairobi — President William Ruto has asked warring parties in Sudan to allow humanitarian agencies to operate freely. The President said the agencies are helping to alleviate the suffering caused by the conflict and their work should proceed unimpeded. He was speaking when he met the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi who […]
Vice President of the Sudanese Sovereignty Council Malik Agar hailed on Monday Egypt’s role in solving the Sudanese crisis and its participation in the initiative to end the crisis. In a press conference, he said Cairo is able to positively contribute to resolving the Sudanese crisis as one of the countries that play pivotal role […]
Khartoum / Omdurman / Khartoum North — At least 229 cases of enforced disappearances have been documented, particularly impacting women in the region, since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 15, according to a post on social media by the Strategic Initiative for […]
Khartoum — The latest ceasefire aimed at ending the devastating conflict that erupted in Sudan on April 15 between Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) appears to be holding as the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and other states reported a ‘relative calm’ during the first day of the 72-hour ceasefire that […]
Though it is unclear which side was behind the attack, five children were among those killed by airstrikes in Sudan. Meanwhile, medics in Chad have complained of the “overwhelming” influx of wounded people from Darfur. Airstrikes hit the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on Saturday, killing at least 17 people as the fighting between the military […]
The warring factions in Sudan’s more than nine-week-long war have agreed another cease-fire, mediators say, shortly after deadly airstrikes hit the capital. All previous truces have failed to put an end to the conflict. The two opposing military factions fighting for power in Sudan agreed to another 72-hour cease-fire on Saturday in a deal that […]
Khartoum / El Debeibat / El Fasher / El Geneina — The Darfur Bar Association (DBA) has recently heard testimonies from 11 women who were raped in El Shajara neighbourhood in Khartoum, according to a statement released by the association. Radio Dabanga this week received reports about at least 16 more rapes. The women reported […]
Khartoum — Warplanes were heard circling above the Sudanese capital on Thursday morning. The day before, fighting between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and army soldiers took place in several places in the city. Airstrikes on RSF sites were reported from Halfaya in Khartoum North. Supporters of the ousted Al Bashir regime are against a […]
Nairobi, Kenya — A catastrophic food crisis looms in Sudan if fighting doesn’t stop, said Freydoun Borhani, team leader with aid organization Mercy Corps in Gedaref state, on the Ethiopian border. “Right now, it’s planting season in Gedaref state, for example. People there must buy seeds for plantation. The price of the seeds go very […]
Sudan’s devastating war has entered its third month, with the murder of a governor marking a fresh escalation of violence in the western region of Darfur. Officials in Sudan on Thursday said the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group had captured and executed the governor of West Darfur, Khamis Abbakar, in the regional capital El […]
Sudan’s two warring parties have expressed objection to an initiative proposed by the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) for a political settlement to the ongoing conflict. At the 14th ordinary session of the IGAD Heads of State and Government, which was held in the Red Sea nation of Djibouti on Monday, an initiative, including a […]
Geneva — Sudan, like Ukraine, is deeply worrying for the United Nations as the latest figures show it helped swell the worldwide displacement total to an estimated 110 million in May, the UN Refugee Agency said Wednesday. The upward trajectory in global forced displacement showed no sign of slowing in 2023 as the eruption of […]
The governor of West Darfur state, Khamis Abakar, was killed on Wednesday (June 14, 2023), an armed group he commanded has said, Al Jazeera reports. Details on his death were unavailable but the Reuters news agency reported that two government sources said the paramiliatry RSF was responsible for the killing. Al Jazeera reports that the Sudanese […]
Khartoum — The situation in West Darfur, the western region of Sudan which, together with the capital Khartoum (see Fides, 13/6/2023), the epicenter of the fighting between soldiers of the Sudanese regular army and the militiamen of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is dramatic. The heaviest fighting is concentrated in El Geneina, the capital of […]
The Sudanese Army Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan is not ready to meet with the opposing general and his former deputy Mohamed Hamdan Daglo. reports AFP. The two are the main parties in the war that started on 15 April 2023. This information was shared by a government official after a summit held in Djibouti on […]
Khartoum — Fighting continued in Khartoum yesterday, where more nearly 30 civilians died in shelling and bombardment. Medicine shortages and lack of food are threatening hundreds of lives in the city. The Khartoum Emergency Room set up by activists and members of resistance committees in the Sudanese capital said in a field report that 18 […]