GLOBAL diplomats and aid officials gathered in London on Tuesday to address the catastrophic humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan, two years into a brutal civil war that has killed tens of thousands and forced more than 14 million people from their homes.…
SOUTH Sudan President Salva Kiir has sacked two vice presidents, James Wani Igga and Hussein Abdelbagi Akol, in the latest reshuffle in the unity government. Kiir, in a presidential decree broadcast by the South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation, also dismissed…
FIGHTING around Sudan’s largest oil refinery set the sprawling complex ablaze, satellite data analyzed by The Associated Press on Saturday shows, sending thick, black polluted smoke over the country’s capital. The attacks around the refinery, owned by Sudan’s government and…
SUDAN’S leader, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has blamed ‘colonial powers’ for exacerbating conflicts across Africa. The head of Sudan’s Sovereign Council made these remarks during a meeting with Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo at the presidential palace in Bissau on Sunday,…
THE escalating violence in Sudan has left eight civilians dead and 53 others injured following artillery shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the capital, Khartoum, and El Fasher city in North Darfur State. The relentless conflict continues…
A Sudanese army air strike on a market in North Darfur on Monday has left more than 100 people dead, according to a legal group monitoring the war in Sudan. The Emergency Lawyers group said on Tuesday that strikes on a market in Kabkabiya,…
THE African Union’s Special Envoy on the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities, Adama Dieng, has urged Sudan’s warring factions to de-escalate their conflict to prevent further civilian casualties. Addressing the situation on Tuesday, Dieng condemned the escalating violence in…
SUDAN’S military announced that its top commander, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, survived a drone attack on a military graduation ceremony in eastern Sudan. The attack, which occurred in Gebeit, resulted in five fatalities. The incident involved two drones and took place…
AN emergency wheat production project in Sudan financed by the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and executed by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has increased wheat production in the country by up to 70% in targeted project locations across…
A SURGE of unwanted pregnancies, barriers to sexual and reproductive health and rights due to sexual violence being used as a weapon of war is adding fuel to the fire in the civil war that erupted in Sudan in April…
