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UAVs supplied by Iran and the UAE threaten to prolong Sudan...
Since January, Iranian cargo aircraft have been seen regularly at the airport in Port Sudan, the headquarters for Sudan’s ruling junta led by Sudanese...
Slaughter in Sudan condemned by top UN official
In the wake of yet another round of violence in Sudan’s Gezira, the senior United Nations (UN) political affairs official echoed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres...
Sudan’s civil war has left at least 62,000 dead by our...
The ongoing war in Sudan has often been overlooked amid higher-profile conflicts raging across multiple continents. Yet the lack of media and geopolitical attention...
Guterres likens Sudan to a nightmare
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres did not hold back on Monday when he addressed ambassadors at the Security Council (SC) on what some...
African conflicts seen as “footnotes” – Lamola
South African international relations and co-operation minister Ronald Lamola maintains conflicts in Sudan, the Sahel and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are “footnotes” while...
UN denounces foreign actors for prolonging Sudan’s conflict
As Sudan’s civil war drags on, experts are pointing to the role played by outside interests in prolonging it and making it deadlier.
“There’s a...
Sudan conflict “a perfect storm of crises” – WHO Director-General
Sudan - where fighting rages on between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and its opposing Rapid Support Forces (RSF) - has drawn widespread criticism...
Is peace possible between Sudan’s warring parties?
Ever since conflict erupted in Sudan on 15 April 2023, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been engaged in...
Sudan’s army has been battling to keep Darfur’s El Fasher from...
The ongoing conflict in Sudan between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces is complex. It’s rooted in weak state institutions, ethnic diversity...
How militia groups capture states and ruin countries: the case of...
The rise of Sudan’s most notorious paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces, shows how armed groups can infiltrate state institutions – often with disastrous...
Famine fears escalate in Sudan, talks ongoing, while violence continues in...
Hunger and the spectre of famine “stalk” Sudan, particularly the North Darfur capital El Fasher where an estimated 800 000 are trapped without food,...
Sudan – the world’s “forgotten war” – condemned by AU
More than a year ago in April hostilities in Sudan were escalated to the level of war with the African Union (AU) this week...
ICC seeking information on Sudan “atrocities”
Ongoing hostilities, fighting and deaths in Sudan’s Darfur region have reached a point where the international Criminal Court (ICC) this week launched a campaign...
Sudan’s descent into chaos sets stage for al-Qaida to make a...
“Sudan’s moment has come; chaos is our chance to sow the seeds of jihad,” warned Abu Hudhaifa al-Sudani, a high-ranking al-Qaida leader, in an...
Sudan’s civil war is rooted in its historical favouritism of Arab...
The current civil war in Sudan goes beyond a simple power struggle between two generals. It reflects a deep-rooted crisis within the country’s governing...
Sudanese Armed Forces might collapse at hands of RSF
In early March, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) retook sections of Omdurman from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The reconquest marked one of the...
Sudan Armed Forces are on a path to self-destruction – risking...
It is now 10 months since the outbreak of civil war in Sudan in April 2023, pitting the Sudan Armed Forces against the Rapid...
Sudanese Armed Forces using Irianian UAVs
The Sudanese Armed Forces has begun using Iranian-made Mohajer-6 unmanned aerial vehicles in its ongoing fight against the Rapid Support Forces, raising the prospect...
UN political mission in Sudan closes doors
Time is up for the United Nations (UN) political mission – UN Integrated Transitional Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) – in Sudan with its...
Sudan is awash with weapons: how the two forces compare and...
Armed conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has escalated following an outbreak of violence in April 2023. There...
What happens in Sudan won’t stay in Sudan
In 2011, a street vendor set himself on fire in Tunisia, an act that triggered unprecedent waves of protests in the Arab World toppling...
Ramaphosa calls for a permanent ceasefire in Sudan as SA nationals...
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for those involved in the conflict in Sudan to immediately cease the violent activities.
President Ramaphosa was addressing a media...
ISS: Sudan’s military rivals fight to the death over the spoils
The explosion of violence in Sudan this week has derailed the country’s troubled post-Omar al-Bashir transition from military rule to democratic civilian government, perhaps...
Sudan created a paramilitary force to destroy government threats – but...
Sudan is in crisis. Fighting continues between Sudan’s military leader, Abdelfattah Al-Burhan, and his deputy on Sudan’s ruling council, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo, who...
UN human rights chief calls for negotiations to halt fighting in...
As opposing sides in Sudan today (Wednesday, 19 April) seemed set for a 24 hour ceasefire a heartfelt plea for them to return to...
Sudan’s Hemedti – the warlord who built a paramilitary force more...
Dozens have been killed in armed clashes in the Sudanese capital Khartoum following months of tension between the military and the powerful paramilitary group...
Paramilitary officers sentenced to death in Sudan
A Sudanese court sentenced six officers in the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces to death for the 2019 killing of six students protesting as civilians...
Former Sudan spy revolt quelled
Armed ex-security agents linked to Sudan’s toppled ruler Omar al-Bashir fought soldiers in Khartoum for hours until government forces quelled the revolt, residents and...
Ghana ranked top in Africa for press freedom
Ghana ranked first in Africa in 2009 and 27th across the world as the country that tolerates media freedom, according to the...
Rwanda defends suspension of two newspapers, watchdog critical
Rwanda on Wednesday said this week's suspension of two newspapers was not politically motivated ahead of August's presidential election but a media...
