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Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on Saturday that they had taken control of 90% of the capital, Khartoum, amidst ongoing clashes with the Sudanese army. In a statement posted on Twitter, the RSF said that they had repelled attacks by the “putschist forces” and that several officers of different …

Air strikes and artillery rocked Khartoum on Saturday as Sudan entered a third week of fighting between rival military forces despite a ceasefire, prompting more civilians to flee and renewed warnings of wider instability if the war is not stopped. As dark smoke rose over Khartoum, a U.N. envoy offered …

Strikes by air, tanks and artillery shook Sudan’s capital Khartoum and the adjacent city of Bahri on Friday, witnesses said, mocking a 72-hour truce extension announced by the army and a rival paramilitary force. Hundreds have been killed and tens of thousands have fled for their lives in a power …

The Iraqi airforce on Thursday initiated a repatriation operation to transport Iraqi nationals and members of the Iraqi community residing in Sudan back to their home country. In a succinct statement, the Ministry of Defense said that a C-130 transport aircraft was deployed in the operation. Ahmed al-Sahaf, the spokesperson …

The head of the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) in Chad said it expects to see more refugees fleeing across the border from Sudan to escape the fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Around 10,000 to 20,000 Sudanese have already crossed the border into Chad …

In a statement released today, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani directed the deployment of two aircraft to evacuate Iraqi citizens stranded in Sudan due to the ongoing violent events in the country. Al-Sudani also instructed relevant security agencies to coordinate with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ensure the …

The World Health Organization said Wednesday it was assessing the threats to public health after fighters in Sudan occupied a national laboratory holding samples of a range of deadly diseases. “The team on the ground, and with our bio-risk and biosafety teams here, are carrying out an extensive risk assessment,” …

Explosive weapons can be highly inaccurate and are not meant to be used in densely populated areas. For almost two weeks now, vicious fighting has been going on in Sudan. Both sides of the conflict, the Sudanese army, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have resorted to shelling in densely …

A three-day cease-fire between Sudan’s warring factions went into effect Tuesday after what the United States called “intense negotiation.” Both the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) publicly pledged to uphold the halt in fighting. “To support a durable end to the fighting, the United States …

Europe, China, and Japan raced to extract their citizens from Sudan on Monday and thousands more people used a partial lull in fighting between the army and a paramilitary force over the past two days to escape the country’s deepening crisis. The sudden eruption of violence between the military and …

Residents of Sudan’s capital reported renewed heavy gunfire on Thursday as thousands tried to flee fighting that has killed scores of civilians before the Eid holiday marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Khartoum and its sister cities Omdurman and Bahri, one of Africa’s most populous urban areas, …

Three flights carrying 177 Egyptian troops from Sudan have arrived in Cairo and a separate group of 27 air force personnel are in the care of the Egyptian embassy in Sudan, the Egyptian army said on Thursday. Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and its sister cities Omdurman and Bahri have been rocked …

Air strikes and explosions hammered Sudan’s capital on Wednesday after the failure of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire between the army and paramilitary forces, forcing residents to stay hunkered down and prompting Japan to prepare to evacuate its citizens. Continuous bombardments and loud blasts could be heard in central Khartoum in the …

Sudan’s rival commanders agreed a 24-hour ceasefire from Tuesday evening, the army said, following calls to each side from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken over fierce fighting in Khartoum that saw shots fired at a US diplomatic convoy. The ceasefire will start at 6.00 p.m. (1600 GMT) and will …

On Monday, the Iraqi president expressed his readiness to embrace a constructive dialogue between the conflicting parties to stop the fighting and end the crisis in Sudan. “We are following with pain the unfortunate developments in Sudan, which claimed the lives of citizens, damaged institutions, and disrupted opportunities to continue …

Calls grew to stop the fighting in Sudan as the capital was bombarded for a third day in deadly fighting between rival military factions that threatens to derail the nation’s stumbling shift from autocracy to civilian rule. At least 97 civilians have been killed and 365 injured since the fighting …

The Sudanese army said on Thursday that the mobilisation in the capital Khartoum and other cities of a para-military force headed by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo had raised the risk of confrontation. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) moves represented a “clear violation of law,” the army said in a rare …

The Palestinian Hamas resistance movement has condemned in the strongest terms the decision by Sudan’s foreign ministry to move forward towards normalizing relations with Israel during talks with visiting foreign minister Eli Cohen in Khartoum, calling upon officials in the North African country to reverse the measure. “Hamas believes that …

Sudan’s military and political parties signed a framework deal on Monday that provides for a two-year civilian-led transition towards elections and would end a standoff triggered by a coup in October 2021. The initial agreement would limit the military’s formal role to a security and defense council headed by a …

At least 150 people, including women and children, were killed Wednesday and Thursday in fresh tribal clashes in the Blue Nile, southern Sudan, which has already been plagued by clashes over land in recent months. The UN mission in Sudan said it was “gravely concerned about the escalation of deadly …