Sudan keeps key aid crossing from Chad open for hard-hit Darfur …
2 days ago · CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Sudan’s military-controlled government said Wednesday that a key border crossing with Chad will stay open to keep much-needed humanitarian aid flowing into the western Darfur region which has been a center of fighting in the country’s ongoing war. The decision on the Adre crossing followed a meeting with United Nations ...
US sanctions Sudanese paramilitary commander for his role in …
2 days ago · CAIRO (AP) — The United States has sanctioned a commander of Sudan’s paramilitary forces, saying he played a leading role in the ongoing violence against civilians in West Darfur. The U.S. Department of Treasury said in a statement on Tuesday that Abdel Rahman Juma Barakallah led the Rapid Support Forces campaign in West Darfur, committing ...
Sudan death toll far higher than previously reported - study
1 day ago · BBC News. 4 minutes ago. French military technology is being used in Sudan's brutal civil war in violation of a UN arms embargo, rights organisation Amnesty International has said. It says the ...
Relentless fighting is devastating Sudan and escalating in Darfur's ...
Sep 19, 2024 · Sudan plunged into conflict in mid-April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between its military and paramilitary leaders broke out in the capital Khartoum and spread to other regions including Darfur. The U.N. says over 14,000 people have been killed and 33,000 injured.
Sudan war: Is Darfur on the brink of another genocide and will …
Jun 14, 2024 · Darfur, a region in western Sudan, has a tragic history marked by ethnic violence and humanitarian crises. In the early 2000s, the area experienced a brutal conflict that resulted in the deaths...
Sudan: New Mass Ethnic Killings, Pillage in Darfur
Nov 27, 2023 · (Nairobi) – The Rapid Support Forces and their allied militias killed hundreds of civilians in West Darfur in early November 2023, Human Rights Watch said today. The forces also looted,...
Sudan conflict: Ethnic cleansing committed in Darfur, UK says - BBC
Analysis of satellite and social media data reveals at least 68 villages in Darfur have been set on fire by armed militias since the civil war began. The UK Minister for Africa, Andrew Mitchell,...
A Massacre Threatens Darfur — Again - The New York Times
Jun 19, 2024 · Fighters battling Sudan’s military for control of the country have encircled the city. Gunfights rage. Hospitals have closed. Residents are running out of food.
Darfur, Blighted by Genocide, Faces a New Catastrophe: War
Jun 7, 2023 · Hundreds have been killed in the western Darfur region since the nationwide conflict in Sudan began, raising fears of protracted warfare in an area already torn by decades of genocidal violence.
Shot at, drowned, executed: Hundreds of people in Darfur were …
Aug 16, 2023 · Hundreds of families gathered in the West Darfur capital of El Geneina on June 15, plotting their escape from what had become a hellscape of blown-out buildings scrawled with racist graffiti and...