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The conflict in Sudan results in several deaths

By Kouthar Sambo Early reports stated that more than 20,000 people have been killed in the ongoing conflict in Sudan following the clashes with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group since April 2023. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 10 million people have been internally displaced. Speaking on VOC's PM Drive show on Monday, Psychosocial analyst and Leadership Coach Dan Mugera, said he cannot understand why international communities […]

10 September 2024

International

Al-Burhan: ‘No negotiations in Jeddah before RSF withdrawal’

Chair of the Transitional Sovereignty Council of Sudan Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan linked engagement in the Jeddah Negotiations to stop the fighting in his country with the withdrawal of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from cities and citizens’ homes. Al-Burhan, who also holds the position of army commander, relayed this statement in a speech on Thursday before the people in the city of Atbara, according to a statement by the Sovereignty […]

13 July 2024

International

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

3,000 killed in Sudan fighting, 2.2m displaced

Armed clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) escalated yesterday in the southern area of the country's capital city of Khartoum, Anadolu Agency reported. Eyewitnesses told the news wire that neighbourhoods in southern Khartoum witnessed violent clashes with light and heavy weapons yesterday morning. War planes flew over the Kalakla neighborhoods where residents heard the sound of heavy shelling and anti-aircraft guns, the eyewitnesses added, noting that the fighter jets flew intensively […]

26 June 2023

International

Sudan’s rival forces agree to 3-day cease-fire

A 72-hour cease-fire deal was signed between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, according to the Saudi Arabian Foreign Ministry on Saturday, reports Anadolu Agency. The deal will take effect at 6 am local time Sunday, it said in a joint statement with the US. The parties will avoid using warplanes and drones, artillery fire and any military supply activities during the cease-fire, and will facilitate […]

18 June 2023

International

Sudan: Scores killed as RSF attacks North Darfur’s Kutum

A Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary attack on the North Darfur town of Kutum in western Sudan on Sunday has killed at least 40 civilians and wounded many more, according to a local lawyers' association and eyewitnesses. During the offensive, the RSF took control of the Sudanese army’s 22nd Brigade garrison, later releasing a video showing its fighters walking through the base, talking to captured army soldiers, and inspecting its offices. It is not known […]

6 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

No sign Sudan warring parties ready to ‘seriously negotiate’: UN

There are no signs that the warring parties in Sudan are ready to seriously negotiate an end to fighting, the UN envoy to the country has said, as a shaky 72-hour ceasefire was partially holding, though armed clashes were reported in strategic locations in the capital Khartoum and elsewhere. UN envoy to Sudan Volker Perthes told a UN Security Council meeting in New York City on Tuesday that both sides in the conflict […]

26 April 2023

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