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Sudan: Panic as the RSF sweeps into el-Gezira, sending thousands fleeing

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has attacked el-Gezira state, pushing into central Sudan for the first time and opening a new front in the Sudanese conflict. Hot on the heels of significant victories in Khartoum, Darfur and parts of Kordofan, the RSF has now entered areas that have been held soundly by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) since the war broke out in April, places that hold hundreds of thousands of Sudanese […]

17 December 2023

International

Sudan’s RSF threatens to set up authority with Khartoum as capital

The head of Sudan’s main paramilitary group yesterday threatened to set up a governing authority in areas his forces control if his enemies in the army form a government, Reuters reports. Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has been fighting the army for almost five months in a conflict that has wrecked the country and triggered a humanitarian crisis. Last month, a senior figure in Sudan’s Sovereign Council, headed by army chief General […]

15 September 2023

International

Airstrike kills 17 Sudanese civilians in Khartoum

At least 17 civilians were killed, including five children, in an airstrike in south Khartoum, according to Sudanese activists on Sunday, reports Anadolu Agency. The attack targeted a residential neighborhood in Mayo suburb in the Sudanese capital late Saturday, the so-called South Belt Emergency Room said in a statement. Eleven people were also injured in the attack. It was not yet clear the party behind the attack, but the Rapid Support […]

19 June 2023

International

Sudan ceasefire marred by further fighting and allegations of sexual assault in Darfur

Sudan's deadly conflict continued on Sunday following an agreement the day before in Saudi Arabia for a short-term ceasefire between the country's warring parties. Eyewitnesses in Khartoum and Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, told Middle East Eye that clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were continuing. Activists in Nyala also told MEE there had been "cases of gang rape", perpetrated by men wearing "uniforms similar to those […]

21 May 2023

International

Sudan crisis: What if Hemeti lost the war he started?

How do you turn a war criminal, whose militias terrorised Darfur by ramming men with pickup trucks and raping women in the name of jihad, into a hero of the Sudanese revolution? Well, you need money. The British PR agency whose pitch lies in front of me as I write this, put their "indicative fees" at between £100,000 ($125,000) and £125,000 ($156,000) a month. For their client, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, otherwise known as Hemeti, this […]

4 May 2023

International

Sudan: Air strikes and artillery breach truce, as civilians continue to flee

Air strikes, artillery and heavy anti-aircraft fire rocked Khartoum on Saturday, as Sudan's warring parties breached the latest truce agreement. More than 500 people have been killed and over 4,000 injured since fighting broke out two weeks ago between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), sparked by plans to integrate the RSF into the armed forces. The most recent ceasefire agreement, which was agreed on Thursday after mediation led by […]

30 April 2023

International

Sudan: Conflict tests limits of Gulf powers’ new diplomacy

The breakout of war in Sudan is testing Gulf powers’ willingness to pursue a more subtle form of statecraft after nearly a decade of heated, and often tortuous, intervention in regional conflicts. The images of Sudanese army forces led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary fighters commanded by his erstwhile ally, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, battling it out in the streets of Khartoum is in stark contrast to recent news headlines from […]

29 April 2023

International News

Sudan marchers demand justice on protest movement anniversary

Crowds of thousands marched through the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Saturday demanding justice for people killed during the protest movement that began exactly two years ago. Some protesters marched towards the presidential palace, directing angry slogans towards both the military and civilian leaders of the transitional government, even calling for a sit-in until the creation of a long-delayed parliament. The power-sharing government was formed after protests that began with the […]

21 December 2020

International News

Sudan finds mass grave thought to contain coup plotters executed by Bashir

Sudan has found a mass grave that most likely contains remains of 28 army officers executed in 1990 for plotting an attempted coup against the former President Omar al-Bashir, the public prosecutor office said late on Thursday. The officers were executed in mysterious circumstances after a quick military trial one year after Bashir himself took power in a military coup in 1989. The burial site was not disclosed for decades. […]

24 July 2020

Khartoum

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