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More than 700 people have been killed in el-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur state since May, the United Nations human rights chief has said, imploring the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to halt a siege of the city. The siege and “the relentless fighting are devastating lives every day on a...

Sudan's military has been accused of carrying out an air strike on a marketplace in the western region of Darfur in which more than 100 people were reportedly killed. The Emergency Lawyers rights group described the bombing in Kabkabiya town on Monday, the weekly market day, as a "horrific massacre...

Russia has vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Sudan, as the country continues to grapple with a deadly war that has displaced millions of people and spurred a humanitarian crisis. The resolution, authored by the United Kingdom and Sierra Leone...

The civil war that has torn Sudan apart for 19 months is fueling the world's biggest humanitarian crisis. In just over a year and a half, 13 million people have been displaced from their homes. At least one overcrowded camp for displaced civilians is already dealing with famine, while other parts of...

The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions Friday on two generals in Sudan’s paramilitary force for their key roles in the war against the country’s military that has seen ethnically motivated attacks and atrocities. Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering...

The Sudanese people are living through a “nightmare of violence, hunger and displacement”, and countless others are facing “unspeakable atrocities”, including widespread rapes, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the UN Security Council on Monday. He singled out “shocking reports...

A senior UN official in Sudan says she is deeply troubled by reports of "atrocious crimes" in the central Gezira state, including the mass killing of civilians by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Clementine Nkweta-Salami's comments came after an activist group said that at least 124...

The United States sanctioned a senior leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for “leading efforts” to supply weapons for the 17-month-long war, which has killed more than 20,000 people and wrecked the northeastern African country. Algoney Hamdan Daglo Musa controls the UAE-based...

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "gravely alarmed" by reports of a full-scale assault on the Sudanese city of al-Fashir by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and called on its leader to halt the attack immediately, a UN spokesperson said on Saturday. Guterres warned any...

U.S.-led mediators said on August 23 they had secured guarantees from Sudan's warring parties at talks in Switzerland to improve access for humanitarian aid, but that the Sudanese army's absence from the discussions had hindered progress. Over 10 days of talks, a new group of mediators including...