Sudan

Area Total 1,861,484 sq km
Climate hot and dry; arid desert; rainy season varies by region (April to November)
Natural Resources petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold; hydropower
Imports UAE 12.7%, Egypt 10.6%, India 10.5%, Turkey 10.2%, Japan 7.6%, Saudi Arabia 6%, Germany 4.6% (2017) – foodstuffs, manufactured goods, refinery and transport equipment, medicines, chemicals, textiles, wheat
Government presidential republic
Capital Khartoum
Population 43,120,843 (July 2018 est.)
Ethnicity Sudanese Arab (approximately 70%), Fur, Beja, Nuba, Fallata
Language Arabic (official), English (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, Fur
Exports UAE 55.5%, Egypt 14.7%, Saudi Arabia 8.8% (2017) – gold; oil and petroleum products; cotton, sesame, livestock, peanuts, gum Arabic, sugar

News about Sudan

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  • South Sudan adviser, opposition leader pursue dialogue
    by umajulius on March 28, 2024

    March 28, 2024 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s presidential adviser and the Sudanese opposition leader have met and held talks in support for ending the war in Sudan, pledging joint efforts for a peaceful dialogue. The two leaders held talks in the South Sudanese capital, Juba on March 27, 2024. Peter Mabior Riiny Lual, a national member of parliament at the […]

  • Sudanese military strikes RSF blocking aid in North Darfur
    by SudanTribune on March 28, 2024

    March 27, 2024 (EL FASHER) – Warplanes targeted a Rapid Support Forces (RSF) convoy near the city of Mellit in North Darfur on Wednesday, according to a commander in the joint force formed by signatories of the Juba Peace Agreement. The RSF allegedly attempted to block vehicles carrying humanitarian aid destined for El Fasher. This incident marks a […]

  • 1000 people flee Sudan to South Sudan per day
    by SudanTribune on March 27, 2024

    March 27, 2024 (RENK) – Nearly one year of war in Sudan has triggered a mass exodus, with a staggering 1,000 people fleeing across the border to South Sudan every day, according to Save the Children. This unrelenting influx, totalling over 600,000 since last April, strains a region already grappling with severe hunger and its worst heatwave in four years. […]

  • RSF accused of blocking life-saving aid for malnourished children in N. Darfur
    by SudanTribune on March 27, 2024

    March 27, 2024 (EL FASHER) – A North Darfur state government official on Wednesday accused the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of detaining trucks carrying critical aid for malnourished children in El Fasher, the state capital. Hundreds of children in North Darfur are struggling with malnutrition, with 268 cases in El Fasher alone. These children require […]

  • South Sudan seeks UAE help to end Sudan war, citing economic strain
    by SudanTribune on March 27, 2024

    March 27, 2024 (JUBA)- South Sudan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have renewed their commitment to ending the war in neighbouring Sudan. The conflict continues to disrupt the economies and stability of both Sudans. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit sent a special envoy to deliver a message to UAE President Mohamed Ben Zayedn highlighting the […]

  • Sudan’s exodus: inside the 29 March Guardian Weekly
    by Graham Snowdon on March 27, 2024

    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 […]

  • 44 UN member countries call for protection of aid actors in Sudan
    by umajulius on March 27, 2024

    March 27, 2024 (GENEVA) – The warring parties in Sudan must ensure the security of humanitarian actors and refrain from diverting life-saving supplies for themselves, a top United Kingdom official to the United Nations said on Tuesday. In a joint statement to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Simon Manley, the UK’s Permanent Representative to […]

  • U.S. seeks to revive Sudan peace talks by mid-April
    by SudanTribune on March 27, 2024

    March 26, 2024 (WASHINGTON) – U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan Tom Perriello announced on Tuesday that his country is pushing for the resumption of peace talks in Sudan by April 18th. This renewed diplomatic effort aims to find a solution to the ongoing conflict, which has caused a massive humanitarian crisis and displaced over nine million people. Speaking […]

  • Sudanese army pushes westward in Omdurman, clashes Erupt in Umbada
    by SudanTribune on March 27, 2024

    March 26, 2024 (UMBADA) – The Sudanese army continued its offensive in western Omdurman, seizing control of the Doha neighbourhood and areas near Souk Libya area, the city’s largest market. After two months of intense fighting, the army regained most of old Omdurman from the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF). On March 12th, the army captured the […]

  • Sudan military rejects power-sharing deal, favours technocratic government
    by SudanTribune on March 27, 2024

    March 25, 2024 (GADAREF) – Lieutenant General Ibrahim Jaber, a member of Sudan’s Sovereign Council and the military’s second-in-command, declared the armed forces’ refusal to participate in any power-sharing agreement with civilian political groups. Despite regional and international efforts to resolve the year-long conflict and return to a […]

  • South Sudan limits basic goods exports to Sudan amid shortages
    by SudanTribune on March 26, 2024

    March 26, 2024 (JUBA) – South Sudan has restricted exports of essential goods to neighbouring Sudan, citing domestic shortages and rising prices. The move comes as both countries grapple with economic challenges. William Anyuon Kuol, South Sudan’s Minister of Trade and Industry, emphasized the government’s priority in stabilizing domestic food prices. […]

  • Libya to investigate claims oil smuggling is fuelling Sudan civil war
    by Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor on March 25, 2024

    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 […]

  • What caused the civil war in Sudan and how has it become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises?
    by Guardian reporting team on March 22, 2024

    Fighting broke out nearly 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 […]

  • ‘Here, there is no future’: ethnic cleansing and fresh atrocities drive exodus of thousands from Darfur
    by Mark Townsend in Adré on March 22, 2024

    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 […]

  • Cholera now threatens 1bn people. It’s time to finish what we began in the 19th century
    by Hakainde Hichilema and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on March 21, 2024

    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 […]

  • Darfur rape survivors gather together after ethnically targeted campaign
    by Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Geniena and Adré on March 14, 2024

    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 […]

  • Sudan’s war leaves deep scars in Geneina, a city of two massacres
    by Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Geneina on February 29, 2024

    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 […]

  • Monday briefing: Charting the forgotten crisis in Sudan
    by Archie Bland on February 26, 2024

    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 […]

  • The Guardian view on the gathering disaster in Sudan: a war that the world is ignoring | Editorial
    by Editorial on February 22, 2024

    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 […]

  • Army bombings sow more terror in Darfur as rival force cements control
    by Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Geneina on February 22, 2024

    At least 10 killed in latest bombing raid in El Daein as Sudan’s 10-month conflict shows no sign of abatingThe bombing started at midnight. According to local residents, Sudanese army aircraft hit an industrial area in El Daein, the capital of East Darfur state, then the city’s main market and at least two other neighbourhoods.In total at least 10 […]

  • Inside the Darfur camp where a child dies every two hours
    by Fred Harter in Addis Ababa on February 21, 2024

    Malnutrition and disease are rife at the ‘overwhelmed’ Zamzam camp – one of hundreds in Sudan, where war has displaced nearly 8 million peopleEveryone knows a family that has lost a child in Zamzam, a camp for hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Sudan’s Darfur region. Hunger and disease have become grim features of daily life, and a child […]

  • Sudan armed forces advance in Omdurman for first time since start of war
    by Zeinab Mohammed Salih in Khartoum on February 17, 2024

    SAF join engineering corps in south of city where they have been besieged by RSF forces since AprilThe Sudan armed forces (SAF) have advanced in Omdurman for the first time since the beginning of the war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April last year.It is reported that the SAF in the Karari military area, north of Omdurman, have joined […]

  • Houthi attacks in Red Sea having a ‘catastrophic’ effect on aid to Sudan
    by Fred Harter in Addis Ababa on February 16, 2024

    Shipments of food and medical supplies from Asia are having to take longer, more expensive routes to avoid seaborne assaultsAttacks by Houthi forces against ships in the Red Sea are holding up shipments of vital aid to Sudan and driving up costs for cash-strapped humanitarian agencies in the east African country, where conflict has put millions at risk of […]

  • UN warns of ‘epic suffering’ in Sudan and appeals for $4bn in aid
    by Fred Harter on February 7, 2024

    Ten months of armed conflict in the country has displaced nearly 11 million people and left half the population facing hungerThere is “epic suffering” in Sudan says the UN, where fighting between rival military factions since April has created the world’s biggest internal displacement crisis and raised fears of state failure.On Wednesday, the UN […]

  • Ukrainian special forces ‘in Sudan operating against Russian mercenaries’
    by Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor on February 6, 2024

    Video reportedly from Ukrainian intelligence shows captured Russian saying he is from Wagner groupUkrainian special forces are reportedly operating in Sudan in support of the country’s army against Russian Wagner mercenaries aligned with the rebel Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to a video released on Monday.The Kyiv Post released a short film which […]

  • Human rights in decline globally as leaders fail to uphold laws, report warns
    by Annie Kelly on January 11, 2024

    Human Rights Watch’s annual report highlights politicians’ double standards and ‘transactional diplomacy’ amid escalating crisesHuman rights across the world are in a parlous state as leaders shun their obligations to uphold international law, according to the annual report of Human Rights Watch (HRW).In its 2024 world report, HRW warns grimly of […]

  • ‘We’re playing Whac-A-Mole’: why the aid system is broken
    by Fred Harter in Chad on January 4, 2024

    Calls for drastic overhaul of funding as conflicts and climate crisis drive surge in humanitarian needs and appeals fall shortThe queue for water at Metche, a camp of 40,000 refugees on the Sudan-Chad border, starts at dawn and lasts until sunset. The aid agencies helping the people there, who fled fighting in Sudan earlier this year, do not have enough […]

  • The forgotten human rights stories of 2023 – in pictures
    by Tom Levitt on January 1, 2024

    From the thousands of people still missing in Syria to the world’s largest displacement of people in Sudan, here are eight ongoing crises that demand global attention Continue reading...

  • ‘They attacked us. They displaced us’: grieving South Sudanese confront Swedish oil giant over their days of slaughter
    by Miranda Bryant in Stockholm on December 31, 2023

    A historic trial, which will call on 61 witnesses worldwide, is expected to set a precedent for global corporations in foreign jurisdictionsBefore the arrival of Lundin Oil in the town of Leer, now part of South Sudan, life there was peaceful, says George Tai Kuony. His childhood was that of a “typical village boy”, driving cattle, helping his family […]

  • ‘They told us – you are slaves’: survivors give harrowing testimony of Darfur’s year of hell
    by Fred Harter on December 30, 2023

    With the war in Sudan poised to escalate and the humanitarian crisis growing, traumatised survivors of a blood-drenched summer in West Darfur tell of their ordealGamar al-Deen was visiting a friend when gunmen poured into his neighbourhood on 27 April 2023. “I came back to find they were all dead,” he says. “My mother, my father, uncles, brothers, […]

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