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The Rapid Support Forces says it has agreed to a proposal by the United States for a ceasefire in Sudan after more than two years of fighting with the Sudanese Armed Forces. The paramilitary group said in a statement on Thursday that it would accept a “humanitarian ceasefire” proposed by the U.S...

An attack on a funeral in the key city of el-Obeid in Sudan’s North Kordofan state has killed 40 people, according to the United Nations. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, citing local sources, said on Tuesday the attack in the state capital, which is still being held by the...

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces killed hundreds of patients and staff inside a hospital in El Fasher, according to the World Health Organization and the Sudan Doctors Network, after the paramilitary group claimed control of the city on Sunday. The WHO secretary general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said...

Scores of people have been killed in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces during their recent capture of the city of el-Fasher in Sudan’s western Darfur region, according to a medical group and researchers. The RSF, which has been fighting Sudan’s military for control of the country, killed at least...

The United Nations has made an urgent call for the protection and safe passage of hundreds of thousands of civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher as fighters from the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group have claimed to have seized control of the besieged city. UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher on...

The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have targeted Sudan’s capital Khartoum and its main airport with drones for a fourth consecutive day, as the government-aligned Sudanese Armed Forces attempts to resume air traffic after regaining control of the city several months ago. Drones and surface-to-air...

A New York jury has found that French banking giant BNP Paribas’s work in Sudan helped to prop up the regime of former ruler Omar al-Bashir, making it liable for atrocities that took place under his rule. The eight-member jury on Friday sided with three plaintiffs originally from Sudan, awarding a...

Militia drone and artillery strikes have killed at least 60 people at a displacement shelter in the besieged city of El Fasher in western Sudan, a local activist group has said. The resistance committee for El Fasher said the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group hit the Dar al-Arqam...

At least 12 people have been killed and 17 were wounded when the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shelled a hospital in Sudan’s North Darfur state, medical sources said. The Sudan Doctors Network said in a statement on Wednesday that the RSF “directly bombed” the facility. It alleged the...

The International Criminal Court on Monday convicted a leader of the Janjaweed militia of playing a leading role in a campaign of atrocities committed in the Sudanese region of Darfur more than 20 years ago—including ordering mass executions and bludgeoning two prisoners to death with an ax. It was...