UNITED NATIONS: At the request of Sudanese authorities, the UN Security Council ended the world body's political mission in the African country ravaged by more than seven months of fighting between two rival generals. Following a letter from Khartoum demanding an immediate end to the United
KHARTOUM: The UN sounded the alarm of impending famine in Sudan, where months of war have hit food supplies and pushed nearly four million people to flee the fighting. "Over 20.3 million people, representing more than 42 percent of the population in the country, are experiencing
KHARTOUM: Fierce fighting between the forces of rival generals shook the Sudanese capital Khartoum as disease and malnutrition threatened the rising number of displaced. Khartoum residents said they were shaken awake by warplanes and "violent fighting" between forces loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and
KHARTOUM: Hundreds gathered in the Sudanese capital Khartoum Wednesday to pray for peace on the first day of the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday, but gunfire shattered the brief respite, residents said. Witnesses in the capital's twin city of Omdurman late Wednesday reported air strikes and anti-aircraft
KHARTOUM: Fighting resumed in different parts of Khartoum on Wednesday as a 72-hour ceasefire — which reportedly saw several violations — between Sudan's warring military factions expired, Reuters reported citing witnesses. A new truce was agreed upon on Saturday, in a series that failed to stop
KHARTOUM: Army warplanes bombed the Sudanese city of El Obeid, as the country prepared to mark two months of suffering since a power struggle between rival generals plunged the country into a devastating war. Since April 15, the regular army headed by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and
Khartoum: Residents of Sudan's South Kordofan State reported mobilisation by a large rebel force on Friday, raising fear that internal conflict could spread in the country's southern regions. The rebel force, the SPLM-N, is led by Abdelaziz al-Hilu, and is estimated to contain tens of thousands
Khartoum: The United States said on Thursday it will only be ready to mediate a truce between Sudan's warring parties when they get "serious", after the army left negotiations and the latest ceasefire unravelled. The army blasted bases of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after
United Nations: For the first time since fighting broke out in Sudan on April 15, UN humanitarians have been able to reach desperate families trapped in the conflict’s epicenter, Khartoum, with food assistance, the World Food Programme (WFP) reported. WFP’s Country Director in Sudan, Eddie Rowe,
Riyadh: Amid the ceasefire that is to expire Monday evening (today), Saudi Arabia and the United States urged to extend a week-long ceasefire that reduced the intensity of six-week-long fighting in Sudan between the two warring generals. The war has disrupted the basic humanitarian supplies for