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More than 5,500 children have been newly displaced by fighting over the strategic Sudanese city of el-Obeid, and thousands more are at risk, Save the Children has warned. “As families arrive in displacement sites and into local communities, they face increasingly difficult living conditions,” the...

Three senior commanders of Sudan’s paramilitary forces were named in a new report from rights group Amnesty International accusing them of overseeing war crimes during the siege and capture of el-Fasher in North Darfur in October. Speaking on Wednesday during the launch of the report in Nairobi, the...

Sexual violence is increasingly being used as a "weapon of war" in Sudan to terrorize the civilian population, a UN report says. The violence is "unprecedented in terms of the scale, prevalence and brutality of its widespread use as a weapon of war", the report adds. Sudan has been hit by a...

The majority-Muslim southern city, in the Kordofan region, has been under siege for several months by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by General Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, also known as Hemedti. The United Nations Security Council expressed its "grave concern" on Saturday, regarding reports of the...

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) trained Colombian mercenaries before sending them to fight alongside a notorious paramilitary group in Sudan’s devastating war, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday. Its new report is the latest by an international rights group accusing the wealthy Gulf monarchy of...

A drone strike on a bustling market in central Sudan on Tuesday killed 28 people and wounded dozens more, a local rights group said, part of the war that has devastated the country since 2023. The Emergency Lawyers, a local rights group that tracks violations committed during the conflict, said on X...

Two weeks of intense clashes in southern Sudan have killed over 61 people, including nine children, a local medical group said Wednesday, fighting that is part of the larger war that has gripped the African country since 2023. According to the Sudan Doctors Network, which monitors casualty tolls in...

An armed group in Libya helped the transfer of former Colombian military personnel to fight with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group against the Sudanese military, according to a United Nations report released days after the third anniversary of the start of the war in Sudan. Libya’s...

Nearly 700 civilians have been killed in drone strikes in Sudan since the beginning of 2026, the United Nations has reported, while NGOs worry that the effects of the war in Iran are complicating efforts to help millions in need of humanitarian aid. The increasing use of drones in the conflict was...

The humanitarian situation has reached “catastrophic levels” for civilians and is even more critical for persons with disabilities three years into the war in Sudan, the nongovernmental organization Humanity & Inclusion says. The war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support...