Despite lifting the state of emergency, the authorities remain wary of RSF infiltration. The Sudan News Agency said security patrols would continue operating across the state and locals traveling at night would need to carry identification documents. Reports compiled by BBC Monitoring say the army continues to carry out security sweeps across greater Khartoum, targeting
UNITED NATIONS — The United States is urging beefed-up U.N. sanctions against the warring parties in Sudan to build pressure on them to negotiate an end to the fighting that has killed at least 59,000 people, displaced some 13 million and pushed many parts of the African nation into famine. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser
Thirty-five people were killed in a drone strike by the Sudanese army on a traditional court session in the north of the Darfur region, a local rights organisation has said. Dozens more were reported injured in Sunday afternoon’s attack. The Emergency Lawyers Group, which monitors violence against civilians, said the attack occurred in Ghara al-Zawiya
According to UN experts and other analysts, more than half (and by some estimates up to 70%) of Sudan’s gold is smuggled out of the country each year. The RSF controls most of the gold deposits in Darfur and Kordofan, in the western and central parts of the country, while the Sudanese army oversees production
The ICC has been investigating allegations of war crimes in Darfur for more than 20 years, since the previous round of violence in the 2000s. “What we see are patterns of crime that, in fact, were the same patterns of crime 20 years ago, when the Security Council first referred this situation to us,” he
Sarah, a 27-year-old university student, was at a crowded gas station in the town of el-Obeid, on the front lines of Sudan’s civil war, when a drone attacked her without warning. She says the station lit up before everything went dark. “In front of us there were injuries, blood, burned cars and destroyed cars.” We
