Essay: Sudan’s civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight
In an article first published on the Conversation, JAN POSPISIL, an associate professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University in the UK, looks at the two-year-old conflict in Sudan and the challenges facing a peaceful resolution…
UN warns 800,000 people in Sudan city in “extreme, immediate danger”
United Nations Reuters Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in “extreme and immediate danger” as worsening violence advances and threatens to “unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout Darfur,” top UN officials warned the Security Council on Friday. War erupted in Sudan one year ago between the Sudanese army (SAF) and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces […]
Sudan’s uprooted millions pay price for year-long war
Cairo, Egypt/Port Sudan, Sudan Reuters After fleeing from the war in Sudan to Egypt, Mohamed Ismail says his ambitions are limited to putting food in the mouths of his five children from a meagre monthly salary of about $100 earned at a paper factory in Giza. One seven-year-old son sleeps in his arms because of […]
Sudan needs “immediate action” on hunger to avert widespread death, UN-backed report says
United Nations Reuters Immediate action is needed to “prevent widespread death and total collapse of livelihoods and avert a catastrophic hunger crisis in Sudan,” a United Nations-backed global authority on food security warned on Friday. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) had been due to issue an update to its December analysis that found […]
Sudan army general rules out Ramadan truce unless RSF leaves civilian sites
Omdurman, Sudan Reuters A top general from Sudan’s army has ruled out a truce in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan unless the paramilitary group it is battling leaves civilian and public sites. The statement by Yasser al-Atta, a deputy commander of the army, comes after the army claimed advances in Omdurman, part of the […]
US declares warring parties in Sudan committed war crimes
Washington DC, US/Cairo, EgyptReuters The United States on Wednesday formally determined that warring parties in Sudan committed war crimes, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said, as Washington increases pressure on the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to end fighting that has caused a humanitarian crisis. Washington also determined that the RSF and allied […]
Essay: Peace in Sudan is elusive for any would-be mediators – but a new window of opportunity has opened for outside intervention
HYERAN JO, a political science professor who studies civil conflicts, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the possibility for peace in Sudan…
US envoy in Chad to spotlight Sudan atrocities she calls “reminiscent” of Darfur 2004
N’Djamena, Chad Reuters The United States envoy to the United Nations arrived in Chad on Wednesday to meet Sudanese refugees who have fled ethnic and sexual violence in Darfur, which she described as “reminiscent” of atrocities 20 years ago that Washington declared a genocide. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who is a member of President Joe Biden’s cabinet, […]
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 […]
Air strikes, artillery fire escalate as factions battle in Sudan capital
Dubai, United Arab EmiratesReuters Air strikes and artillery fire intensified sharply across Sudan’s capital on Tuesday, residents said, as the army sought to defend its bases from paramilitary rivals it has been fighting for more than a month. The air strikes, explosions and clashes could be heard in the south of Khartoum, and there was […]