CAIRO: The main hospital in Sudan's al-Fashir city has been attacked by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and put out of service, Doctors Without Borders (MSF), which supports the facility, told Reuters. The city, in the Darfur region of northwestern Sudan, is home to more than
CAIRO: 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. In the report to the
ADRE, Chad: Sitting outside her makeshift shelter in eastern Chad, Sudanese refugee Mariam Adam Yaya warmed up tea on some firewood in a bid to quell the pangs of hunger. The 34-year-old from the Masalit ethnic group crossed the border on foot after a four-day trek
CHICAGO: Biden administration officials ramped up their calls for the prosecution of warring Sudanese factions for war crimes against civilians but brushed aside questions about alleged Israeli war crimes against civilians in the Gaza Strip. Beth Van Schaack, the US Department of State’s ambassador-at-large for global
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 conflict in Sudan, which has left thousands dead and seven million people displaced over seven months, is spreading to new regions of the nation, the UN said, warning of a mounting "humanitarian calamity." The deadly unrest includes outbreaks of interethnic violence and attacks against
ADRÉ Chad: Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Sudan's war have crossed into Chad to find themselves in overcrowded camps, sweltering in plastic huts and awaiting healthcare that never comes. One of them, Adam Bakht, is an elderly man with a sparse beard who said he
ALASAA, Libya: Exhausted, pregnant and weeping, Sudanese nurse Tafaul Omar sat under the scorching desert sun along with 14 other migrants who said they had been arrested by Tunisian authorities and dumped in the border area with Libya – a practice Tunisia denies. The group of
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
WAD MADANI SUDAN: One Sudanese child has been killed or wounded every hour on average during the country's brutal war that has now raged for 100 days, the UN children's agency said Tuesday. The army led by Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary forces of Mohamed