[ad_1] Sudan is suffering one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history after nearly a year of war, the United Nations has warned. Fighting between the army, headed by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led by Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, since last April has killed tens of thousands of…
[ad_1] Nearly five million people in Sudan are at risk of “catastrophic” hunger in the coming months, the United Nations has warned, calling for the country’s warring parties to allow aid deliveries. In a note to the UN Security Council on Friday, UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said acute levels of hunger were being driven…
[ad_1] At least nine people have been killed in a plane crash in Sudan’s coastal city of Port Sudan. “A civilian Antonov plane today crashed at Port Sudan Airport as a result of a technical failure, leading to the deaths of nine people, including four military personnel. One child survived the crash,” Sudanese army said…
[ad_1] A raging conflict in Sudan has driven more than 3.1 million people from their homes, the United Nations said on Wednesday. More than 2.4 million people have been displaced internally and more than 730,000 have fled to neighboring countries, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimated. Most have fled from the capital Khartoum, the…
[ad_1] Sudan’s devastating conflict raged into its third month on Thursday with an estimated two million people displaced, and as a governor’s killing marked a new escalation in the western region of Darfur. Since April 15, the regular army headed by Abdel Fattah al Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commanded by his…
[ad_1] About 300 infants, toddlers and older children have been rescued from an orphanage in Sudan’s capital after being trapped there while fighting raged outside, aid officials said. According to international media reports, Thursday’s evacuation came after 71 children died from hunger and illness in the facility since mid-April. The tragedy at the Al Mayqoma…
[ad_1] Air strikes have pummelled Khartoum, with representatives of Sudan’s warring factions meeting in Saudi Arabia for talks to prevent a “humanitarian catastrophe” as the fighting entered a fifth week. According to international media reports, more than 750 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced since fighting erupted on April 15 between army…
[ad_1] The war between Sudan’s generals is having increasingly severe consequences for civilians, with a doubling over the past week of the number uprooted from their homes, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Hundreds have already been killed in the fighting but new worries emerged as separate ethnic clashes claimed at least 16 lives in…
[ad_1] Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, issued on Sunday directives to present humanitarian aid to Sudan worth $100 million. The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has been tasked with overseeing the delivery of the aid and organizing…
[ad_1] The United States and African nations were racing to secure an extension of a ceasefire in Sudan on Thursday, with the Sudanese army saying it had given an initial nod to an African proposal calling for talks even as heavy fighting continued. Hundreds of people have been killed in nearly two weeks of conflict…
