Violence shuts crucial aid corridor into Sudan’s Darfur, UN agency says
Reuters Violence around the city of al-Fashir in Darfur, Sudan, has blocked a recently opened humanitarian corridor from Chad and time is running out to prevent starvation in the vast region, the UN World Food Programme said on Friday. Attacks around al-Fashir, the Sudanese army’s last holdout in Darfur and home to some 1.6 million […]
Donors raise more than €2 billion for Sudan aid a year into war
Paris, France/Cairo, Egypt Reuters Donors pledged more than €2 billion for war-torn Sudan at a conference in Paris on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron said, on the first anniversary of what aid workers describe as a neglected but devastating conflict. Efforts to help millions of people driven to the verge of famine by the war […]
Sudan’s warring factions widen conflict across the country
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Sudan’s two-month long war is extending across the country with the army and Rapid Support Forces clashing in several areas on Friday. Air strikes and anti-aircraft missile fire hit overnight in the Omdurman and Khartoum, two of the three cities that make up Sudan’s wider capital. But the war has in recent […]