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Peace in Sudan: a fresh mediation effort is needed – how it could work

Intense fighting has ravaged Sudan since 15 April 2023. The war between the Sudanese Armed Forces and its erstwhile comrades-in-arms, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, has created one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Famine, displacement and mass atrocities are wreaking havoc in the country.

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Sudan’s army battles RSF for control of oil refinery near Khartoum

Sudan plunged into conflict in April 2023, when long-simmering tensions between RSF and the army broke out.

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Sudan army says its forces enter Wad Madani in push to retake city from RSF

The military says it is working to ‘clean up the remaining rebel pockets’ inside the capital of Gezira state.

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Sudan’s military retakes a strategic city from RSF rebels, dealing them a major blow

Sudanese officials says the military and its allies had taken back the strategic city of Wad Medani more than a year after the Rapid Support Forces seized it

The Independent UK

‘If you are black, you are finished’: the ethnically targeted violence raging in Sudan

Refugees tell of attacks on darker-skinned people and non-Arab groups by Rapid Support Forces and its allies in Darfur

The Guardian - UK

US Says Sudan's RSF Committed 'Genocide' In Darfur

The United States determined on Tuesday that members of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) had "committed genocide" and imposed sanctions on the paramilitary group's leader.

International Business Times

Sudanese women filmmakers defy war with stories of resilience

Far from the frontlines of Sudan's devastating war, a new generation of amateur women filmmakers is gathering in the formerly sleepy city of Port Sudan to explore the untold stories of their troubled country.

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At least nine killed in drone attack on hospital in Sudan’s Darfur

The Rapid Support Forces have been blamed for an attack on the last remaining hospital in the city of el-Fasher.

Al Jazeera

Sudan war sparks 'biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded' - IRC

Sudan has become the "biggest humanitarian crisis ever recorded" after 20 months of devastating war between rival generals, the International Rescue Committee said in a report released Wednesday, as the war continues.

Radio France Internationale

Airstrike on North Darfur market kills more than 100, says Sudan lawyers’ group

Hundreds injured in Sudanese military attack in Kabkabiya during town’s weekly market day, group says

The Guardian - UK

French weapons found in Sudan war zone despite arms embargo, says Amnesty

French-made military equipment fitted to armoured vehicles from the United Arab Emirates is reportedly being used by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in violation of a UN arms embargo in the Darfur region.

Radio France Internationale

UAE Armored Vehicles Equipped With French Systems Captured In Sudan

Amnesty International reports UAE-made armored vehicles with French systems seized in Sudan civil war, violating UN arms embargo.

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UN Security Council sanctions two generals from Sudan’s paramilitary RSF

Paramilitary group’s head of operations and West Darfur commander have been slapped with travel bans and asset freezes.

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Sudan’s civil war grows more brutal as UN details horrific sexual violence

Sudan’s brutal civil war shows no signs of slowing, with reports of escalating atrocities and rampant sexual violence threatening to destroy entire communities. Harrowing accounts from a UN report detail widespread abuses, with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) implicated in a surge of attacks targeting women and children.

The Independent UK

Head of UN-backed team of experts cites paramilitary force in Sudan for sexual violence as war rages

The head of a U.N.-backed fact-finding team looking into human rights violations and abuses in Sudan said Friday it found the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces responsible for large-scale sexual violence in areas that it controls

International Business Times

IMF Raises Concerns About Effects Of Sudan Conflict On Neighbors

The war in Sudan is likely to cause heavy economic damage in neighboring countries, the IMF's deputy director for Africa, Catherine Pattillo, told AFP. "What is going on there for the people in Sudan is just so heart wrenching and devastating.

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Is Sudan’s army regaining ground lost in the civil war?

Sudan’s army has launched a sweeping offensive to retake some major cities, but will it succeed?

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The Conversation

Sudan’s brutal war has become many wars, making peace even harder to reach

Sudan’s war runs grimly on. The two main protagonists (though there are others involved) are each claiming local victories. The Sudanese army appears to be slowly regaining control of the ruined capital, Khartoum, and has recovered some ground it lost elsewhere in Sudan. And the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…

Al Jazeera

Sudan military’s strike on market in capital kills at least 23: Rescuers

Market is near one of the main camps in the Sudanese capital where the paramilitary RSF has been fighting the military.

The Independent UK

US sanctions a leader of Sudan's paramilitary group for fueling a brutal war

The United States has sanctioned a senior leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for supplying weapons for the 17-month-long war, which has killed more than 20,000 people

The Conversation

Sudan at war: the art of peace talks and why they often fail

High-level peace talks took place in August 2024 to negotiate a much-needed ceasefire in Sudan. Unfortunately, nothing tangible came out of the talks held in Switzerland and co-hosted by the US and Saudi Arabia.

Al Jazeera

Is Sudan’s army on the verge of recapturing Khartoum?

Sudan’s army launched a major assault on Khartoum in a bid to recapture the capital from the Rapid Support Forces.

Radio France Internationale

Air strikes in Khartoum as Sudan army attacks paramilitary positions

Air strikes and shelling rocked Khartoum on Thursday as the army reportedly attacked paramilitary positions throughout the Sudanese capital.

Al Jazeera

Sudan’s army launches major offensive on Khartoum

The army lost control of most of the capital to the paramilitary RSF at the start of the conflict last April.

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