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…
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’s army claims control of national broadcast building
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Sudan’s army said it had taken control of the state broadcast headquarters from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Tuesday in what would be its most significant advance against its paramilitary rival in nearly 11 months of war. The broadcast building lies in Omdurman, a city across the River Nile […]
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 […]
“Grave danger”: Millions of Sudanese go hungry as war disrupts food supply
NAFISA ELTAHIR, of Reuters, reports on the daily struggle Sudanese are facing to find food in a nation riven by war…
UN rights chief: blocking aid to Sudan could be a war crime
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The United Nations human rights chief on Friday said that the apparent deliberate denial of safe access for humanitarian agencies within war-torn Sudan could amount to a war crime. Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has been fighting Sudan’s army for control of the country since April last year in a war that […]
ICC prosecutor believes warring parties committing war crimes in Darfur
United Nations Reuters The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor told the UN Security Council on Monday “there are grounds to believe” both Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces are committing war crimes in Darfur at present. War erupted in Sudan on 15th April, 2023 between the Sudanese armed forces and the RSF. […]
War pushes Sudan towards “catastrophic” famine-like conditions
Cairo, EgyptReuters Families in Sudan’s conflict zones could experience famine-like hunger by next summer, the United Nations has warned, while some in the war-ravaged capital are surviving on a single, meagre daily meal. Some 30 million people, almost two thirds of the population, are in need of assistance in Sudan according to the UN, double […]
African mediators claim progress in efforts to end Sudan’s war
Cairo, EgyptReuters An African regional body involved in efforts to mediate over the war in Sudan says it has secured a commitment from warring parties to implement a ceasefire and to hold a political dialogue aimed at resolving the conflict. There was no immediate comment from Sudan’s army or the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which […]
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 […]