Darfur

Residents are fleeing missile fire and sheltering without food and water amid escalating fighting in the Sudanese city of Al-Fashir, witnesses and aid workers said, adding to fears of an all-out battle. The city is the Sudanese army’s…
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The Sudanese Army has claimed its first major advance in 10 months of war, regaining control of part of the city of Omdurman from the Rapid Support Forces. The army said late on Friday it had succeeded in connecting its two main bases in…
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The EU has condemned an escalation of violence in Sudan’s Darfur region, warning of the danger of “another genocide” after the conflict there between 2003-2008 killed some 300,000 people and displaced more than 2 million. A war since…
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday warned Sudan’s paramilitary force against what Washington called an “imminent large-scale attack” in North Darfur’s capital, where thousands were seeking refuge from fighting. “The United…
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Fighting between two rival generals has spread to cities in war-ravaged Sudan’s south, witnesses said Friday, raising concerns for hundreds of thousands who have fled violence in the Darfur region. The vast western region as well as the…
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Attacks by Sudanese paramilitaries on Sunday sent hundreds of civilians fleeing a major city in Darfur, residents said as battles against the regular army intensify in the restive western region. Darfur as well as Sudan’s capital…
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Air strikes pummelled Khartoum on Sunday and fighting raged in Sudan’s western Darfur region, witnesses said, as a three-month war between the army and rival paramilitaries showed no signs of abating. In the capital’s east and northwest,…
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The governor of North Darfur, western Sudan, Nimr Abdel Rahman, announced the approval of United Nations humanitarian aid officials to organize trips from Chad to Darfur to transport aid to those affected by the fighting. Nimr said in a…
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A prominent rights group on Tuesday called for the International Criminal Court to investigate atrocities in Sudan’s volatile Darfur region, including what it says were “summary executions” of 28 non-Arab tribesmen by a Sudanese…
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Sudan’s Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, rose from lowly beginnings to head a widely feared Arab militia that crushed a revolt in Darfur, winning him influence and eventually a role as the country’s second most powerful man,…
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