What's happening in Sudan? All about the war and humanitarian crisis going mostly unnoticed

More than 500 days after a brutal civil war broke out in Sudan, little global attention is being paid to the tens of thousands who've been killed, the risk of famine and fears of genocide in the ... Read More

Sudan is the world’s worst modern war – what has happened and what it’ll take to rebuild

Sudan’s war has been raging since April 2023. The country was on a bumpy road to democracy after mass uprisings in 2019 ousted long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir. This all came to a halt when troops ... Read More

The World Once Tried to Stop a Genocide in Sudan. Now It Looks Away

The bitter war launched 17 months ago between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—the Janjaweed rebranded—has, according to the U.N., killed 18,800 people. But that ... Read More

UN mission says both Sudan sides committed abuses, peacekeepers needed

By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Both sides in Sudan's civil war have committed abuses that may amount to war crimes, and world powers need to send in peacekeepers and widen an arms embargo to protect ... Read More

Sudan is the world’s worst modern war

Sudans war has been raging since April 2023. The country was on a bumpy road to democracy after mass uprisings in 2019 ousted long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir. This all came to a halt when troops ... Read More

UN-backed rights experts seek wider arms embargo and 'impartial force' deployed to war-torn Sudan

U.N.-backed human rights investigators are urging the creation of an “independent and impartial force” to protect civilians in Sudan’s war ... Read More

Why Sudan’s catastrophic war is the world’s problem

As our report from inside the country explains, it is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis—and also a geopolitical time-bomb. Sudan’s size and location make it an engine of chaos beyond its borders. Read More

The World Is Ignoring the Catastrophe in Sudan

The bitter war launched 17 months ago between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—the Janjaweed rebranded—has, according to the U.N., killed 18,800 people. But that ... Read More

Explainer-What's behind the war that has driven Sudan to famine?

A conflict in Sudan that erupted in April 2023 has unleashed waves of ethnic violence, created the world's largest internal displacement crisis, and pushed at least one area in Darfur into famine. Read More

War in Sudan: How Two Rival Generals Wrecked Their Country

In April 2023, after months of rising tensions, their troops went to war against each other. Both leaders have traveled outside of Sudan in the past year ... Red Sea, one of the world’s busiest ... Read More

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In a separate incident, a 13-year-old Palestinian girl was also fatally shot, part of the rising toll of West Bank violence during the war in Gaza ... the battlefield,” one expert said. Read More

Year of Global Elections

September 2, 2024 • The Alternative for Germany party made huge gains in two eastern states, handing the German far right its best results since World War II. August 27, 2024 • Ahead of Sunday ... Read More