This lawless desert land is home to gold smuggling and people trafficking. It is also key to Sudan's war
Thousands at risk as foreign aid cuts hit humanitarian efforts.
Ugandan opposition fights military prosecution of civilians +++ South Sudan denies Gaza refugee relocation reports
Doctors Without Borders said the Darfur region, which has been a major battleground over more than two years of fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, had been hardest hit by the year-old outbreak.
Parents are struggling to feed their children in war-hit Sudan's Darfur region.
Cholera spreads rapidly in Sudan’s refugee camps, causing severe illness and deaths amid aid shortages.
Sudan has been ravaged by warring military factions. Now, a cholera outbreak is compounding the suffering.
The deal between South Sudan and Israel could help the two countries build closer ties, the report added.
An aid group in Abu Shouk camp says at least 40 were killed by gunmen from the Rapid Support Forces.
In June, the Rapid Support Forces captured Sudan's wild border frontier with Libya and Egypt. This is how they did it
Both sides in the conflict have set their sights on taking Kordofan, where catastrophe looms and most aid groups can’t enter
The civil war shows no signs of ending
Since the Sudanese Army drove its paramilitary rival from the capital in March, the two sides are battling for territorial gains in the Kordofan region.
Malnutrition cases persist across country as support is scaled back
El-Fasher, encircled by RSF paramilitary fighters, has not had food deliveries for over a year.
The World Food Programme says el-Fasher, encircled by RSF paramilitary fighters, has not had food deliveries for over a year.
Disputes between the two over border demarcations have been ongoing but heavy, armed fighting has been rare until now.
Civil war need not be an insurmountable obstacle
There is poignant African proverb of the Kikuyu people that “When the elephants fight, the grass gets trampled.’ Few places illustrate the power of that proverb better than Sudan, it being axiomatic that when powerful forces go to war, it’s their people
Eight people were reported dead after Ugandan soldiers crossed the border into South Sudan and skirmished with troops there.
Famine has been declared in areas of Darfur, an region particularly hard hit by the ongoing civil war.
Discussions were aimed at advancing peace talks between two Sudanese generals
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It is not clear what triggered the clashes although sections of the border have long been contested.
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US set to host talks in Washington after mixed results ending conflicts elsewhere
The RSF-backed parallel government could complicate peace talks and cement a de facto partition in Sudan, say analysts.
The collapse of the fenethylline market in Syria has seen producers look for new markets, including the battlefields of northeast Africa
The move by a paramilitary-led coalition may make it even harder for the African country to hold together.
United Nations officials have warned that the Rapid Support Forces' (RSF) formation of a parallel government could deepen Sudan's fragmentation and complicate diplomatic efforts to end the conflict that began in April 2023.
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani meets with Brig. Gen. Kevin J. Lambert, the new commander of the anti-ISIS mission in Iraq.
TEHRAN – Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani received Mahmoud Nabavian, First Deputy Chairman of Iran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, and his accompanying delegation on Monday.
Hundreds die in Rapid Support Forces massacre described as one of the deadliest since war began
Eight men sent by the United States to South Sudan could presage a new approach to Trump-era deportations, even as critics say the practice could amount to “enforced disappearance.”
It is the first time RSF fighters have entered el-Fasher in such numbers since a siege began in May 2024.
While condemning the war, al-Sudani asserted that the “deep-rooted regime” had many supporters and would not collapse quickly.
The court says there are "reasonable grounds" to believe claims of war crimes in western Sudan.
An Intercept investigation shows that immigration officials deceived the men now expelled to South Sudan.
The Supreme Court is helping the Trump administration expand its deportation regime — and restrict immigrants’ rights to object for fear of torture.
The US Supreme Court had overturned a judge's decision that the men be allowed to contest their removal.
After legal battle, US sends eight detainees to country it has advised citizens not to visit due to ‘crime, conflict’.
Courts blocked the handover after lawyers raised concerns of torture. Then the Supreme Court intervened to allow the Trump administration’s plan to move forward.
Only one of the eight immigrants set to be expelled to South Sudan is from that nation.
The US Supreme Court has twice upheld Donald Trump’s ability to deport foreign nationals to countries outside their own.
Sudan was thrown into disarray in 2023 when its army and a paramilitary group began a power struggle.
The dam on the Blue Nile has caused major tensions with Egypt and Sudan, and raised fears of war.
Sudan's army chief and de-facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan accused Libya's eastern commander Khalifa Haftar of not being honest, sources say
Sudan and Egypt are concerned about its effect on their water supply, but Abiy says the dam will benefit them all.
A 19-year-old tells the BBC how she miscarried as she fled attacks in the western Darfur region.
Khaman Maluach only took up basketball aged 14, but the refugee from South Sudan has been drafted to join NBA side Phoenix Suns.
Documentary looks back to the celebratory days of Sudan’s 2019 revolution, and the aftermath
‘I’m here representing the whole continent of Africa,’ Maluach said after being drafted by the Houston Rockets.
The Abraham Accords was a development in Middle East during President Donald Trump's first term in office in 2020, when the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco, and Sudan agreed to normalize relations with Israel.
The 17-year-old Australian Sudanese sprinter clocked 20.02 seconds to break the Australian national record once again.
May 6, 2025 Sudan has cut ties with the United Arab Emirates, accusing the gulf country of arming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that attacked Port Sudan.
The Trump administration asked the justices to make clear that an order they issued on Monday applied to a group of men it seeks to deport to South Sudan.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus appeals for attacks on health facilities to "stop everywhere".
The ruling applies immediately to a group of men the government has sought to send to South Sudan.
The crisis in Sudan has become ‘a grave human rights and protection emergency’, the United Nations mission says.
The clash left dozens of RSF fighters dead and destroyed armored vehicles, according to a statement from the Sudanese Armed Forces’ 6th Infantry Division.
The war is in strategic stalemate, but Sudan is no-one's priority - an orphan in a region that is ablaze.
Sudan, Palestine, South Sudan, Haiti and Mali face immediate risk as extreme hunger rises in 13 locations.
Khartoum makes allegation of direct involvement of Libyan forces in Sudan war
Madleen, run by Freedom Flotilla Coalition, changed course after receiving distress call about sinking raft with 30-40 Sudanese on board
US’s cruel escalation of policy puts misplaced target on vulnerable nations such as Afghanistan and Sudan
On May 20th, a flight with eight deportees left Texas headed to South Sudan, a country on the brink of civil war. But mid-flight, a judicial battle began to unfold that forced the flight to land in Djibouti. Katrin Bennhold, speaks with Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times reporter covering Homeland Security and Immigration, to understand what’s going on and how it fits into President Trump’s larger immigration plan.
Nationals from countries including Afghanistan, Haiti and Sudan ‘fully’ restricted. Plus, a breakthrough in HIV research
The 2025 ranking reveals two main trends: the prevalence of fintechs and the outsized performance of the continent’s two biggest economies — Nigeria and South Africa. Plus a Rwanda-based microfinance start-up helps a boatmaker in South Sudan and how Covid helped turn one entrepreneur’s dream into reality
Going into effect June 9, the travel ban targets nationals of Afghanistan, Burma, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Haiti, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen, the White House said on Wednesday. There will also be a partial ban for Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.
The president’s proclamation barred travel from a variety of countries, including Afghanistan, Chad, the Republic of Congo, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen.
Deadly attack on UN convoy in Sudan disrupts aid to hunger-stricken families in the war-torn country.
Trucks carrying food to famine-threatened city targeted in RSF-controlled Al Koma in western Sudan
Initial reports suggest multiple casualties following the attack on the convoy, a UN spokesperson says.
Aid workers fear arrest and worsening of hunger crisis that already threatens millions of people.
Government lawyers said a federal judge had overstepped his authority by requiring hearings before deportations to countries other than a migrants’ own.
Water treatment stations attacked by RSF unable to provide clean water in Khartoum state, where 95 percent of cases are.
The health crisis is fuelled by the war which has destroyed vital infrastructure, aid agencies say.
Thousands of South Sudanese refugees face worsening health conditions as cholera spreads.
A coalition of advocacy groups has filed two legal complaints seeking to prevent the Paris Air Show from taking place this year after it announced it will host Israeli companies as well as firms supplying weapons to wars in Ukraine and Sudan.
The state department is imposing new sanctions on the country's government because of the findings.
The deportees are stuck in Djibouti amid a legal fight over their expulsions. A lawyer for some of the men said she was concerned for their health and welfare.
The State Department said it notified Congress on Thursday of its determination on the use of chemical weapons, triggering sanctions after 15 days. The sanctions include restrictions on US exports and financing to Sudan's government
The Trump White House has accused Judge Brian Murphy of attempting to shield ‘vicious illegal aliens’ from deportation.
Lawyers for some of the eight migrants deported Tuesday said they were told they were being sent to South Sudan. People familiar with the plane said it had landed for now in Djibouti.
The Trump administration says it is deporting eight criminal "monsters", as immigration attorneys challenge the move.
Lawyers for a Burmese man said their client speaks limited English and had refused to sign a notice of removal.
The Justice Department said one migrant was flown back to his home country of Myanmar, but declined to identify the country that a second migrant was sent to.
Announcement comes weeks after the army made gains in and around the capital city to push back the Rapid Support Forces.
Red Sea city is crucial to the flow of humanitarian aid
Dagalo, who leads the rival Rapid Support Forces paramilitary, also announces a government as war ravages Sudan.
Health facilities were destroyed and staff killed in record numbers in conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine, Myanmar and Sudan
Free access to weapons would only spur the ongoing violence in the country.
A drone attack on the coast heralds a new phase in the country’s civil war
Influx of weapons believed to have come from China, Turkey and the UAE has escalated the ruinous conflict
After years of gradual progress toward stability, a succession battle is pushing the country to the precipice of another full-blown civil war.
Paramilitaries of Rapid Support Forces cause blackouts and water shortages with assault on vital infrastructure
Experts tell the BBC the air strikes showcase the growth of advanced drone warfare in Africa.
Israel’s ‘template for genocide’ is being used in Sudan, according to international law expert Luigi Daniele.
Raging conflicts, disasters and climate change are responsible for the displacement of tens of millions of people, with Gaza and Sudan hit the hardest. The lack of progress toward reining in global displacement marks 'a policy failure and a moral stain on humanity.'
The latest attacks come as the African Union rejects any ‘interference’ in the civil war, which has killed over 20,000.
While the civil war ravaging Sudan for over two years stems from a rivalry between two men, it is being fueled by regional influences. As the risk of partition grows, it is becoming essential to exert pressure on external players, led by the United Arab Emirates, to find a resolution.
The paramilitary force has been blamed for attacks on a prison in el-Obeid and a displacement camp in Darfur.
The city, which has escaped the worst of the civil war, has been targeted in a series of bombardments.
Activists warn of unfolding genocide as UK and others host peace conference in London
Abu Dhabi has long rejected accusations that it is arming the RSF in its war with Sudan’s military rulers.
Universities and laboratories in Khartoum are looted or in ruins, with vital research and medicines destroyed, including pioneering work on tropical diseases
Port Sudan is the main entry point for humanitarian aid into Sudan. A spokesman for UN chief Antonio Guterres said the drone strikes 'could lead to large-scale civilian casualties and further destruction of critical infrastructure.' The UN has also warned of more 'human suffering in what is already the world's largest humanitarian crisis.'
The army has repeatedly accused the Gulf nation of backing the RSF, something which the UAE denies.
Thick columns of smoke could be seen Tuesday in Port Sudan, the eastern Sudanese city where the Sudanese paramilitary group known as Rapid Support Forces was accused of attacking a fuel depot with drones.
Publications including the 'Washington Post,' ProPublica, the 'New York Times' and 'The New Yorker' were awarded for their reporting, commentary and photography.
Multiple explosions have been heard and a huge fire seen in Port Sudan,
The International Court of Justice dismissed Sudan’s case accusing the UAE of enabling genocide in Darfur.
The International Court of Justice said it lacked jurisdiction after Sudan accused the United Arab Emirates of fueling genocide in the African country’s civil war.
The UAE opted out of part of the Genocide Convention meaning it cannot face genocide allegations itself.
The strikes targeted an airport, a warehouse and several civilian facilities in the eastern city of Port Sudan, the army said.
At least seven people were killed and 20 injured after a Doctors Without Borders hospital was bombed in South Sudan
It is the first time RSF attacks have reached the city, which is the de-facto capital of the army-led government.
At least seven people were killed and 20 injured in the attack that damaged the hospital in Old Fangak, in the north of the country.
MSF said its hospital was attacked as fears grow of a return to civil war in South Sudan.
The UN has warned in recent weeks that the country is on the brink of a new civil war.
The Sudan Doctors Network said that the Rapid Support Forces killed at least 21 children on Thursday, the latest violent spasm in Sudan’s civil war.
With the rainy season and funding cuts looming, the World Food Programme is worried about the displaced in Sudan.
Millions of people in danger of starvation as crises persist.
Sudan's regular army and its Rapid Strike Forces paramilitary group have been fighting since April 15, 2023. The conflict has killed tens of thousands and thrown the country into a severe humanitarian crisis.
Guardian journalist Kaamil Ahmed reports on the devastating assault by the Rapid Support Forces on the camp in Darfur and what it tells us about the group’s plans in Sudan’s civil war
At least 31 people, including children, have been ‘executed’ by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Since April 2023, the RSF has been battling Sudan’s army for control of the country in a brutal civil war.
The Vatican's representative to South Sudan says the Pope's memory should be honoured by seeking peace.
Women, girls and boys suffered reported sexual attacks in the latest violence.
People are trekking under "blistering" heat to escape "horrific circumstances", the BBC is told.
The facts are clear and the stories are harrowing. What is missing is more action.
Sudan’s war has entered its third year with no end in sight
Editorial: The ambitions of two generals and the interests of other states have led to the massacre of adults and children already forced to flee their homes