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It’s seven months since fighting erupted in Sudan. Away from the world’s attention, the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, are still battling for control of the capital, Khartoum. But the RSF now controls most of the Darfur region, where they’re allegedly waging a new campaign of killing and rape. They and allied Arab…
The United Nations Human Rights office says it has ‘credible information’ that the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces or RSF – which is currently fighting the Sudanese army – is responsible for a mass grave in West Darfur.
One protester has been killed and several others have been injured in Sudan’s Darfur region – after security forces opened fire on a sit-in protest in the town of Nyala yesterday.
As the government pledges £33m in aid to Darfur, International Development Minister Lynne Featherstone says the money will be used to help communities grow their own food and providing training.
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Jon Snow prepares to present the Anna Politkovskaya award to Dr Halima Bashir from Darfur, Sudan, who gave evidence to the UN over rapes by the militia in her country despite her own suffering.
Extreme situations bring out the best and worst in people, and few situations are more extreme than the war in Sudan.
The UK is almost doubling its aid to Sudan, to £89 million, as the humanitarian crisis there continues to escalate.
Nearly eight million people have been displaced, making it the largest crisis of its kind in the world.
Last night we brought you evidence of a mass killing in Darfur in Sudan – where the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces stand accused of summarily executing dozens of ethnic Masil-eet people, in a school compound in May.
We spoke to Mohamed Osman, the author of a Human Rights Watch report on killings that took place in the Western Darfur town of Misterei. We put it to him that the Rapid Support Forces had issued a statement saying none of this ever happened – and asked him if their denial was credible?
For three months, Sudan’s Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have been locked in a fierce battle around the capital Khartoum. But their conflict has also rekindled ethnic violence in Darfur – echoing the atrocities of 20 years ago.
We spoke to Mukesh Kapila the former UN Humanitarian coordinator in Sudan in 2003, when the conflict in Darfur began.
Thousands of people have been killed and millions more have been forced to flee their homes in Sudan – since brutal fighting erupted in April between the country’s army and the rebel Rapid Support Forces. Sudan’s health ministry said an air strike on Saturday, which the army denies, killed at least 22 people in Omdurman.…
In Sudan, fighting continues to rage between government troops and rebel militia forces, reaching a grim, two-month milestone this week. In that time, thousands have been killed and more than two million people displaced. Neighbouring Chad is the destination for an increasing number of them, and there are fears that in West Darfur, the war…
Fighting continues to rage between government troops and rebel militia forces in Sudan, despite efforts to impose a ceasefire.