Sudan‘s deadly conflict continued on Sunday following an agreement the day before in Saudi Arabia for a short-term ceasefire between the country’s warring parties. Eyewitnesses in Khartoum and Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, told Middle East Eye that clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were continuing. Activists[…]
Sudan’s warring factions are engaged in a fierce and complex battle for local and regional support in Darfur, as fighting intensifies in the country’s western region. Sources in Darfur and the countries it borders have told Middle East Eye that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary led by General Mohamed[…]
Sudan’s warring factions have committed to protecting civilians as well as ensuring the movement of humanitarian aid, according to United States officials, but a ceasefire remains elusive. After a week of talks in the Saudi Arabian port of Jeddah, Sudan’s army and rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) signed a declaration on Friday that they would work towards[…]
When two Rapid Support Forces (RSF) soldiers stormed Nadir el-Gadi’s home in Khartoum on April 23, they demanded to know which side of the Sudan conflict he supported – the RSF or the Sudanese army. The 77-year-old responded that he wasn’t with either side. “I said we are against this[…]
Dozens of independent, partisan, tribal and academic political figures in Sudan yesterday launched an “inclusive, sovereign, national initiative” in support of the Sudanese army against the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The initiative, dubbed the Nation’s Call for Peace and Democratic Transformation, calls for confronting the targeting of the[…]
Air strikes, artillery and heavy anti-aircraft fire rocked Khartoum on Saturday, as Sudan‘s warring parties breached the latest truce agreement. More than 500 people have been killed and over 4,000 injured since fighting broke out two weeks ago between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), sparked by plans to integrate[…]
The breakout of war in Sudan is testing Gulf powers’ willingness to pursue a more subtle form of statecraft after nearly a decade of heated, and often tortuous, intervention in regional conflicts. The images of Sudanese army forces led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary fighters commanded by his erstwhile ally,[…]
Some foreign nationals have begun evacuating from Sudan as the bloody fighting that has engulfed the vast African nation enters its second week. The bloody onslaught of urban warfare has trapped large numbers in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The airport has been repeatedly targeted and many residents have been unable[…]
At least seven people were killed and five others injured in tribal fighting in western Sudan, according to local authorities on Saturday, Anadolu reports. The violence started on Wednesday when herders attacked a group of farmers in Amuri village, east of South Darfur, leaving one person dead and injuring two others,[…]
Latest death brings the number of demonstrators killed since last year’s October military coup to 118. Security forces shot dead a protester in Sudan‘s capital on Sunday, medics said, two days ahead of the first anniversary of a military coup that derailed the country’s transition to civilian rule. The latest death – the[…]
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