Tag: Sudan
Sexual violence increasingly a weapon of war in Darfur – ICC...
Systematic rape and sexual violence are used as “weapons of war” in Darfur according to the International Criminal Court (ICC) as part of a...
Sudan: foreign interests are deepening a devastating war – only regional...
The war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces has raged since April 2023. It’s turned Sudan into the site of...
Lamola to participate in DRC, Sudan peace efforts
International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Ronald Lamola, is currently in Kampala, Uganda, to attend the 12th High-Level Meeting of the Regional Oversight Mechanism (ROM)...
Could prolonged warfare in Sudan lead to the country splitting?
The war in Sudan has taken a dramatic turn for the worse. Changes in battlefield tactics, along with new political and diplomatic dynamics, are...
Port Sudan under siege: Drone strikes disrupt key maritime hub
In a significant escalation of Sudan’s ongoing civil conflict, the strategic Red Sea port city of Port Sudan has come under sustained drone attacks,...
G7 and EU denounce two-year-old Sudan war
The war in Sudan, dubbed by some the one the world forgot, this week marked the second year of ongoing hostilities between the Sudanese...
Sudan’s war isn’t nearly over – armed civilian groups are rising
Sudan’s war, now entering its third year, has taken another unexpected turn. In March 2025, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), also known as the...
Sudan’s civil war: What military advances mean, and where the country...
A series of advances by the Sudanese military has led some observers to posit that the African nation’s yearslong civil war could be at...
Many obstacles remain for Russian naval base in Sudan
After years of on-again, off-again negotiations, Sudan has agreed to let Russia establish its first naval base on the continent along the war-torn country’s...
Colombian mercenaries in Sudan show internationalisation of conflict
A single road cuts through the Libyan desert from the coastal city of Benghazi to al-Uwaynat on the northwestern border of Sudan. It was...
Peace in Sudan: a fresh mediation effort is needed – how...
Intense fighting has ravaged Sudan since 15 April 2023. The war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and its erstwhile comrades-in-arms, the paramilitary Rapid Support...
DRC among four African trouble spots named by Guterres at top...
Naming specifically the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), The Sahel, Somalia and Sudan, United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the weekend high level...
Global conflicts doubled over the past five years; set to worsen...
Global conflicts doubled over the past five years and are still rising, with one in eight people now exposed to conflict. 2025 is expected...
Africa’s 2024 Security Trends in 10 Graphics
Africa’s persisting conflicts are compounding crises of governance on the continent, straining already fragile regions and opening the door to foreign exploitation through proxy...
Invisible wars and visible suffering: The ICRC’s role in Africa’s humanitarian...
Patrick Youssef, Head of Africa for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), offers a sobering analysis of Africa’s escalating humanitarian crises, amid...
Sub-Saharan Africa becoming less peaceful, new report reveals
Sub-Saharan Africa is the second least peaceful region of the world behind the Middle East and North Africa, with three of the ten least...
No military solution to Sudan – top UN envoy
The Sudanese civil war, dubbed by some as “the war the world forgot”, has in its 20-month existence seen more than 12 million people...
Top EU diplomat condemns rape as a weapon of war
The new European Union (EU) foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, used the December European Parliament plenary to deliver a scathing attack on those using...
Military spending in DRC and South Sudan rose fastest in the...
Global military expenditure is dominated by the United States and China, with 49% of total spending between them. According to the most recent report...
Conflicts causing record level of forced displacement in Africa
The number of African refugees, internally displaced persons, and asylum seekers grew by 14 percent over the past year—to more than 45 million people.
The...
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...
Military rule is on the rise in Africa – nothing good...
In the last few years, there has been a spate of military coups in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Guinea. Military rule, long...
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 conflict spilling into Abyei
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) this week heard ongoing conflict in Sudan is “exacerbating instability” in Abyei, a 10 000 plus square kilometre contested...
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...
Sudan is burning and foreign powers are benefiting – what’s in...
The United Nations has accused foreign players of prolonging the war in Sudan, making it harder for the country to find peace. The fighting...
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...
AU continental logistics base delivers for African peacekeeping missions
Douala, the Cameroonian port city home to the African Union (AU) Continental Logistics Base (CLB), has and is a one-stop hub for deploying security,...
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...
African refugees neglected as crises worsen
World Refugee Day - marked on 20 June - is a reminder that Africa and the world cannot peacefully maintain the current pace of...
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...
African conflicts under the AU/UN microscope
Eight countries and two African regions were under scrutiny when the United Nations (UN)/African Union (AU) Joint Task Force (JTF) on peace and security...
SANDF officials arrested as more corruption allegations surface
Following the arrest of former Defence and Military Veterans Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) is once again in the...
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...
UNSC wants Sudan hostilities ended immediately
Adopting what is being called “a key resolution”, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) demands “immediate cessation of hostilities” in war-torn Sudan.
The resolution was...
Is Iran planning a naval base at Port Sudan?
There is speculation that Iran is planning to establish a naval base in the African Red Sea port of Port Sudan.
Officially, Iran says it...
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...
The African Union is working on peace in Sudan: expert explains...
The African Union has recently named a team to work on a peaceful end to Sudan’s civil war. The team will engage Sudan’s feuding...
After a glimmer of hope, Sudan’s peace effort fades
With the world’s attention focused on wars in Israel, Gaza and Ukraine, the devastating civil war that erupted in Sudan in April 2023 has...
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...
