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April 26, 2024 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese army announced on Saturday that it had shot down three drones that attempted to target Merowe Airport in the northern state. This attack comes 48 hours after the army reported engaging reconnaissance drones in the Umm Bakul area near Meroe and thwarting their mission. A statement issued by the Guidance and Services […]

April 26, 2024 (EL FASHER) – Sudanese military aircraft conducted airstrikes on Friday targeting positions held by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in several locations, sparking reports of civilian casualties. Local sources informed Sudan Tribune that warplanes bombed RSF sites east of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, as well as Mellit, a town […]

April 26, 2024 (JUBA) – Sudan on Friday said export of South Sudan’s crude oil using the Jabalyn pipeline through Port Sudan will resume in two months. The Vice President of the Transitional Sovereign Council of Sudan, Malik Agar said major efforts were being made to resume oil exports. “Transportation of South Sudan crude oil via the Jabalyn-Port […]

April 25, 2024 (KHARTOUM) – Civilians in Sudan must be protected and never be subjected to acts of sexual violence, which constitute war crimes, top United Nations officials said ahead of a meeting of the Security Council this week. This is contained in a joint statement by the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in […]

April 25, 2024 (JUBA) –  South Sudan President Salva Kiir has sacked Foreign Affairs minister James Pitia Morgan, naming him envoy to the Great Lakes region. Appointed in August 2013, Morgan was South Sudan’s ambassador to Ethiopia. Kiir, in a decree read on the state-owned television (SSBC) on Thursday, named Ramadan Abdala Goc as the new replacement […]

April 26, 2024 (EL FASHER) – Sudanese and international experts are sounding the alarm about a potential massacre in El Fasher, Darfur, as paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launched a full-scale attack on the city, the last government stronghold in the region. El Fasher is the only remaining area in Darfur that the RSF does not completely control. […]

April 15, 2024 (KHARTOUM) – An emergency room in the area east of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum has expressed fears over the increasing deaths among kidney patients due to lack of medications and power outages. Medical professional on Thursday said six kidney patients had died as a result of lack of water and high fuel prices to operate dialysis machines […]

April 25, 2024 (PORT SUDAN) – The Sudanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs fired back on Thursday against U.S. criticism of the Sudanese military. The Ministry condemned what it called the U.S’s “unequal treatment” of the situation in Darfur. On Wednesday, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller denounced the Sudanese military’s alleged […]

April 25, 2024 (GEDAREF) – Fearing the upcoming rainy season, Gedaref Governor, retired Major General Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, pleaded with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to fund alternative housing for the tens of thousands of displaced people and refugees residing in the state. Gedaref already hosts over 100,000 Ethiopian […]

April 25, 2024 (MEROE) – The Sudanese army asserted on Thursday that its ground-based air defences successfully repelled a drone reconnaissance mission conducted by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) near Meroe City in Sudan’s Northern State. A statement issued by the 19th Infantry Division, stationed in Meroe, detailed that three small reconnaissance […]

The African country accounted for two-thirds of the additional 13.5m people needing urgent help as displacement drove food insecurity globallySudan had the world’s largest number of people facing extreme food shortages in 2023 as conflict and displacement drove food insecurity globally, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).The […]

While conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine have captured global attention, the civil war in Sudan has been largely ignored. That can’t be allowed to continue, says the Guardian’s Nesrine MalikWith so much of the world’s attention on the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, one of the worst humanitarian crises of recent times is playing out almost unnoticed. Sudan’s […]

Readers respond to Nesrine Malik’s article about the civil war tearing the country apartRe Nesrine Malik’s article (For a full year, the bodies have piled up in Sudan – and still the world looks away, 15 April), in 2002 I was the chief of staff to the joint monitoring mission (JMM) in Sudan’s Nuba mountains, in South Kordofan. The JMM was charged […]

The anti-abortion crowd who believe embryos are ‘extrauterine children’ have been weirdly silent about the strikeIf you, or someone you love, has ever had fertility issues, you will know just how heavy an emotional toll they can take. IVF, in particular, is not easy. You have to inject yourself with hormones. Then you undergo anaesthesia and have an […]

As militias targeted the Masalit community in a wave of ethnic violence, one man offered shelter and an escape route across the borderEvery night, for weeks at a time last year, Saad al-Mukhtar put a small group of people in the back of his sports utility vehicle and drove them under the cover of darkness from his home in the Sudanese city of Geneina across […]

Satellite data indicates growing number of airstrikes on settlements, in a war that has already killed thousandsThe number of villages in Sudan that have been destroyed or severely damaged by fire has risen sharply in recent weeks, suggesting the country’s conflict is intensifying as it enters its second year.Satellite data revealed the number of Sudanese […]

Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister, says ‘every life counts equally, whether in Ukraine, in Gaza, or in Sudan’The UN high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, has warned of a further escalation in violence in Sudan.“The Sudanese people have been subjected to untold suffering during the conflict which has been marked by […]

Fighting broke out a year ago in the capital Khartoum, in an escalating power struggle that has led to more than 8 million people being displaced‘Here, there is no future’: ethnic cleansing and fresh atrocities drive exodus of thousands from DarfurFighting broke out in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, on 15 April 2023 as an escalating power struggle between […]

As the war in Sudan moves into its second year, 1,000 refugees a day continue to cross its southern border. Within the small town of Renk in South Sudan, a rapidly growing refugee population faces desperate shortages of water, food and shelter. For many, South Sudan marks a return to a land they thought they had left behind, having fled the country after […]

Exclusive: Rights groups denounce negotiations with Rapid Support Forces, accused of ethnic cleansing and war crimesInside South Sudan’s worsening refugee crisis – in picturesForeign Office officials are holding secret talks with the paramilitary group that has been waging a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Sudan for the past year.News that the British […]

In the country of my birth, this latest conflict is two tragedies overlaid. Its people are strong, but none of us can see a way throughOne year ago today, Sudan descended into war. The toll so far is catastrophic. Thousands are dead, and millions are displaced, with hunger and disease ravaging all in the absence of aid. The UN has called the situation […]

Some people in Ambelia camp waiting for treatment to wounds resulting from ethnic violence last yearHundreds of displaced Sudanese people living in a refugee camp across the border in Chad have been unable to access vital medical care for injuries sustained during fierce battles in the Sudanese city of Geneina in the past year.Some of those in the vast […]

The victims of Africa’s forgotten war. Plus: After the Moscow attack, a cynical blame game beginsGet the Guardian Weekly magazine delivered to your home addressThis has been a week dominated by some pretty seismic global events – the Moscow terror attack, the UN security council ceasefire resolution on Gaza and the China cyber-hacking revelations to […]

Authorities to launch inquiry into allegations of mismanagement at country’s national oil corporationLibyan authorities have said they will investigate allegations of wholesale mismanagement in the country’s National Oil Corporation, with officials telling the Guardian rampant smuggling is helping to fuel the civil war in Sudan.Mohamed al-Menfi, the […]

Almost a year since conflict reignited in Sudan, its terrified people are crossing borders to Chad and beyond. An increasing number are trying to reach Europe as food supplies dwindle in the refugee camps and the eyes of the world look elsewhereThey burst into the room, yanking the boy from under a bed. His brown eyes wide open with terror, they put a gun […]

With the disease raging in 23 countries and no vaccine stocks, Zambia and the WHO propose a way to stop the deathsIn the 1840s, a prominent health notion of the time – the “miasma theory” – suggested that bad smells and bad air led to people contracting diseases such as cholera and the Black Death. By the end of the decade, more than 50,000 deaths […]

Group on outskirts of Geneina share stories from November when RSF and allied militias unleashed wave of sexual violenceTwice a week, a group of women gather together in a nondescript house in Ardamata, on the outskirts of Geneina in Sudan’s West Darfur state, to tell their stories to each other, cry, and drink coffee.The women, who work or used to work […]

People in West Darfur’s capital still step over residue from the bodies of some of the 10,000 dead, and thousands have fledGeneina, the capital of West Darfur state in Sudan, can feel like two cities in one. There are mass graves, abandoned armoured vehicles and homeless children, but also newly opened restaurants, bustling markets and factory-fresh […]

In today’s newsletter: With tens of thousands dead, millions displaced and no sign of the war abating, a ‘deafening silence of global indifference’ threatens the country’s future• Sign up here for our daily newsletter, First EditionGood morning. “There is a certain kind of obscenity about the humanitarian world, which is the competition of […]

Millions are displaced and starving as two generals fight for power and other countries pursue their own interestsEven before a communications blackout hit Sudan two weeks ago, few were watching a war that has killed thousands of people and displaced more – almost 8 million – than any other current conflict. “It’s not a forgotten crisis. It’s a […]