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More than 500 people may have been tortured or starved to death and then buried in a secret mass grave north of Khartoum. A visit to a base belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shortly after it was retaken by the Sudanese military found a previously unknown detention center, with...

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF in French) has said it is suspending its work in a famine-stricken camp for displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur region, as an increase in violent attacks has made it too dangerous to operate. In a statement, the medical charity said...

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), accused of carrying out crimes against humanity as it fights the country’s army in a 20-month war, has signed a charter with allied political and armed groups to establish a “government of peace and unity”, its signatories said. The signing ceremony...

Attacks by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have killed hundreds of civilians, including infants, in White Nile state, Sudanese officials and rights groups. Sudan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the paramilitary group targeted civilians in the past few days in villages in...

Nearly two years of conflict have fueled a catastrophic protection crisis and displaced a staggering 12 million people in Sudan and across borders. Fighting continues to kill and injure civilians and destroy hospitals, markets, and other essential infrastructure. Nearly two-thirds of the population...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) called for a ceasefire in Sudan during the coming holy month of Ramadan, a UAE official said. The call was rejected by the Sudanese army, as the country's civil war approaches the two-year mark. The army considers the UAE to be an aggressor of the war, accusing it of...

After a week of whirlwind gains for the Sudanese army and allies in the capital Khartoum, leaders hailed a turning point in the civil war, speaking to reporters from inside the army's main headquarters that had been besieged since April 2023. The recapture of the al-Jaili refinery in northern Bahri...

South Sudan’s police imposed a nationwide curfew from 16:00 GMT on Friday after a night of deadly rioting in the capital over the alleged killing of South Sudanese people by the army and allied groups in neighboring Sudan. In a broadcast on state television, police chief Abraham Peter Manyuat said...

The administration of outgoing United States President Joe Biden has imposed sanctions on the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. In a statement on Thursday, January 16, the U.S. Treasury Department stated the SAF has committed lethal attacks on both civilians and...

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies have been targeting Masalit civilians in El-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, since April 15, 2023. A United Nations panel of experts found in January 2024 that the RSF and allied militias killed up to 15,000 people in El-Geneina. Nearly a year later...