The Latest Breaking News from Darfur

I asked the pilot to deviate from our approved flight path and go low over Darfur. It was 2003 and I was the United Nations Humanitarian and Resident Coordinator in Sudan investigating reports of violence. What I saw was a genocide unfolding on my watch.

The U.N. envoy for Sudan is urging the country's warring generals to honor a seven-day cease-fire

While attention has focused on the conflict in Khartoum, an uptick in violence in el-Geneina is terrifying residents.

As clashes between the Sudanese Army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continue to rock Sudan, Janjaweed fighters – affiliated with the RSF – have been spreading terror in West Darfur, particularly in the city of Geneina. Several waves of attacks have been reported, resulting in hundreds of civilian casualties,…

Fleeing the village to escape from attackers, crossing a desert border, building a shelter from straw and rags, waiting for food aid: these are familiar hardships for Halime Adam Moussa, who has fled Sudan for Chad with her family for a second time.

Human rights groups and civilians say another wave of deadly attacks has hit West Darfur’s capital, el-Geneina.

Armed conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has escalated following an outbreak of violence in April 2023. There is intensive fighting in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, neighbouring Omdurman and elsewhere, including Darfur.

Rapid Support Forces faction likely to fall back to lawless stronghold if fight with regular army fails in capital

Fighting reported in far south and communal clashes in Darfur, amid power struggle between generals

When a power struggle between Sudan's rival military leaders shattered a tenuous peace in her village in Sudan's western region of Darfur, Halime Yacoub Issac's first instinct was to take her five children and run.

Following a week of fighting and looting, civilians are left with no access to drinking water, food and healthcare.