US, UK, Norway condemn escalating violence in Sudan’s Darfur – statement
Washington DC, USReuters The United States, United Kingdom and Norway on Friday condemned escalating violence and human rights abuses in Sudan, especially in the Darfur region, the three countries said in a statement. The countries cited attacks by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary force drawn largely from Arab groups and allied Arab militias known as […]
EU condemns Darfur violence and warns of “another genocide”
Reuters The European Union condemned on Sunday an escalation of violence in Sudan’s Darfur region, warning of the danger of “another genocide” after conflict there between 2003 and 2008 killed some 300,000 people and displaced more than two million. A war since April between Sudan’s regular army and Rapid Support Forces paramilitary has destabilised the […]
UN warns violence in Sudan “verging on pure evil”
United NationsReuters Violence against civilians in Sudan is “verging on pure evil,” a senior United Nations official warned on Friday, as a humanitarian crisis in the country worsens and ethnic violence escalates in the western region of Darfur. A war erupted on 15th April between the Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces after weeks […]
Sudan’s displaced millions struggle to survive as economy seizes up
Port Sudan, Sudan Reuters About two months after heavy clashes around his home in Sudan’s capital drove Sherif Abdelmoneim to flee, soaring rent and food costs forced the 36-year-old and his family of six to return to a city where fighting still rages. Most of those who fled Khartoum after war between the army and […]
Essay: Genocide fears in Darfur are attracting little attention – have nations abandoned their responsibility to protect civilians?
In an article first published on The Conversation, MIKE BRAND, adjunct professor of genocide studies and human rights at the University of Connecticut, asks whether, with genocide and crimes against humanity garnering little international attention, the international community has completely turned its back its commitment to protect civilians…
Fighting flares in South Darfur amid fears of expanded civil war
Reuters Violence flared in the western Sudanese city of Nyala and elsewhere in the state of South Darfur on Sunday, witnesses said, threatening to engulf the region in Sudan’s protracted war. The conflict has brought daily battles to the streets of the capital of Khartoum, a revival of ethnically targeted attacks in West Darfur, and […]
Sudanese suffer sexual violence on “sickening scale”, UN says
United NationsReuters Sexual violence is being committed in Sudan on a “sickening scale,” while fighting in the Darfur region is reopening “old wounds of ethnic tension” that could engulf the country, United Nations officials told the Security Council on Wednesday. “The alarming accounts of sexual violence that are heard from people who have fled to […]
Heavy clashes grip Sudan capital as war shows no sign of let-up
Reuters Sudan’s army on Tuesday intensified efforts to gain ground in the capital Khartoum in some of the heaviest fighting since the start of a conflict with a rival military faction that has caused a growing humanitarian crisis. The army has launched air strikes and used heavy artillery since Monday to try to take a […]
Sudan war enters 100th day as mediation attempts fail
Reuters Clashes flared in parts of Sudan on the 100th day of the war on Sunday as mediation attempts by regional and international powers failed to find a path out of an increasingly intractable conflict. The fighting broke out on 15th April as the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces vied for power. Since then, […]
Ethnically targeted violence worsens in Sudan’s Darfur – rights monitors
Reuters Gunmen killed at least 40 civilians in a single day in Sudan’s Darfur region as ethnically motivated bloodshed has escalated in step with war between rival military factions, Human Rights Watch reported on Tuesday. In the West Darfur city of El Geneina, several prominent figures have been killed in recent days and volunteers are struggling […]