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Sudan’s army was trying to hold off attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Friday near Wad Madani, a major city in a region that had been sheltered from fighting and taken in hundreds of thousands of civilians during eight months of…
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Heavy fighting Sunday in a disputed region claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan killed at least 32 people, including a UN peacekeeper, authorities said. The civilians and a Ghanaian soldier serving with a peacekeeping force died when…
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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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A paramilitary attack on Jabal Awliya south of Khartoum killed at least 10 people on Saturday, activists reported, as the death toll from Sudan’s six-month war hit more than 9,000. “Bombs fell inside civilian homes” in the small town…
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The lack of security in Sudan’s civil war combined with meagre international funds is hampering efforts to help millions in need in the country, the United Nations said Thursday. “We need to reach 18 million people and we will not give…
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Thousands have fled a southern Sudan town, residents said Monday, after attacks by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, at war with the army for nearly six months. RSF fighters on dozens of armed vehicles attacked the town of Wad…
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The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on two companies, including one based in Russia, and one person it accused of exacerbating instability in Sudan as fighting has killed thousands and displaced millions of civilians. The…
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Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan said Saturday “we don’t need” the African Union to resolve the country’s nearly five-month conflict, as new figures put the death toll at over 7,000. Diplomatic tensions have flared since the…
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Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan traveled Thursday to Doha for talks with Qatar’s emir, Sudan’s ruling sovereign council said, his third trip abroad during his nearly five-month war with paramilitaries. Burhan and Qatar’s…
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Kurdish-led forces sent troop reinforcements to Deir Ezzor province in eastern Syria on Monday amid days of clashes with fighters loyal to the head of the local provincial military council. Fighting erupted a week ago after the Syrian…
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