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It had been nearly two years since AFP journalist Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali set foot in his home in war-torn Khartoum, after the sound of children playing in the street gave way to the fearsome fire of machine guns.

On 11 April Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries attacked the country’s largest displacement camp. The extent of the brutality remains unclear, but some accounts are now emerging

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have announced the formation of a rival government in territories under their control – a move timed to mark the second anniversary of a war the United Nations describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

In today’s newsletter: Why a conference excluding Sudan’s warring parties broke up with disagreement about how to end the world’s worst humanitarian crisis

Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces declares rival authority in areas under its control.

On the second anniversary of the outbreak of Sudan’s civil war, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced €140 million in new aid during an international conference in London.

Major setback for diplomatic efforts to end two years of civil war as Arab states refuse to sign joint communique

Nearly two hundred Palestinian journalists have been killed in Israeli bombings in the Gaza strip over the last 18 months. In response, a collective of French professional organisations defending journalists and press freedom have signed an open letter denouncing the attack on the profession and the media blackout they claim…

An island in the middle of Sudan's capital that used to draw crowds to its Nile River farms now stands nearly deserted after two years of war, its homes ransacked and once-lush fields left fallow.