Sudan has been witnessing a deadly conflict between the SAF and the RSF since April 15, 2023. Khartoum: At least 80 people were killed in an attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a village in Sinnar state in central Sudan, a volunteer group said. “The RSF launched a bloody attack yesterday (Thursday) … Read more
The UN on Friday called for more financial support for aid operations in Sudan. United Nations, US: The United Nations appealed Friday for Sudan’s battling factions to allow delivery of humanitarian relief to fend off looming “catastrophic” hunger. Some five million Sudanese could face calamitous food insecurity in coming months as a nearly yearlong war … Read more
JUBA: About 40 people, many of them civilians, have been killed in violence in a disputed area on South Sudan’s border with Sudan over the weekend and hundreds have sought refuge in a UN peacekeepers’ compound, a government official said on Monday. Frequent clashes have taken place in Abyei region between rival factions of the … Read more
Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan’s West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a United Nations report seen by Reuters on Friday. In the report to the U.N. Security Council, independent U.N. sanctions monitors attributed the toll … Read more
CAIRO: The Sudanese government suspended ties Tuesday with the east African regional bloc trying to mediate between the country’s army and a rival powerful paramilitary force, accusing the body of violating Sudan‘s sovereignty by inviting the paramilitary leader to an upcoming summit. The army, headed by Gen Abdel-Fattah Burhan, and The Rapid Support Forces, commanded … Read more
Canada will allow people in Sudan who have relatives in Canada to reunite with their families through a new humanitarian pathway as the violent conflict in the African nation continues, Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced Thursday. Miller said in a statement that children, grandchildren, parents, grandparents and siblings of Canadian citizens or permanent residents will … Read more
WAD MADANI: Paramilitary forces established a base Sunday in the formerly safe city of Wad Madani in war-torn Sudan, an AFP correspondent reported, sending thousands fleeing, many of them already displaced.Thousands have sought to escape the former aid hub since the war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) reached Wad Madani … Read more
The declaration was proclaimed as “a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations.” Seventy-five years ago on Sunday Dec. 10, 2023, the U.N. General Assembly approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at a meeting in Paris. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File) Human Rights Declaration: Seventy-five years ago on Sunday, the … Read more
Descrease article font size Increase article font size The United Nations Security Council voted Friday to end its political mission of a few hundred people dedicated to ending the civil war in Sudan. Russia abstained from the unanimous vote to end UNITAMS, the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in Sudan. The United States’ and … Read more
GENEVA: The UN demanded an investigation Friday into reports of a second wave in months of ethnically-motivated killings in Sudan’s Western Darfur region that have left hundreds dead.The United Nations rights office said preliminary information it had obtained from survivors and witnesses suggested that Masalit civilians “suffered six days of terror” earlier this month.“Some of … Read more