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Over 10,000 people displaced in 3 days in Sudan: UN

PORT SUDAN: Violence in western and southern Sudan displaced more than 10,000 people within a three-day period this week, according to figures released by the United Nations’ migration agency on Sunday.Since April 2023, Sudan’s regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have waged what the UN has called a “war of atrocities”, killing tens […]

Bangladesh Condemns Drone Attack Killing Peacekeepers in Sudan | Udaipur Kiran

Dhaka, December 14 (Udaipur Kiran) – Bangladesh has strongly condemned the drone attack on its peacekeepers deployed in Sudan under the United Nations peacekeeping mission. The attack on the UN base camp in Abyei on Saturday resulted in the death of six Bangladeshi peacekeepers and left eight others injured. Bangladesh expressed deep sorrow over the […]

Sudan: One-sided truce prompts calls for humanitarian aid

File photo: A woman who fled el-Fasher, after Sudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region, rests at a camp in Tawila, Sudan. (Pictire credit: AP) Until Thursday, violence by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against Sudanese civilians was ongoing.However, on Thursday afternoon, the paramilitary group led by General Mohammed Hamdan […]

What’s happening in Sudan? UN warns of grave humanitarian crisis following El Fasher’s fall

The city of El Fasher, in North Darfur, has become the epicentre of one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters after falling to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from the national Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). The takeover follows an 18-month siege and has led to mass killings, widespread starvation and mass displacement, according to […]

Sudan: After RSF takeover, atrocities feared in Darfur

Satellite image shows part of the Daraja Oula neighborhood of el-Fasher (Image credits: AP) Around 260,000 civilians are trapped in El Fasher, half of them children. For months, the city has been besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia and cut off from the outside world. For a long time now, food has not […]

Sudan: Khartoum International Airport resumes domestic flights after 30-month closure despite recent drone attacks | World News

A Badr Airlines plane, coming from Port Sudan Airport, landed at Khartoum International Airport, marking the first domestic flight in over two years/ Representative image:X Khartoum International Airport resumed air traffic after more than two years, marked by the landing of a Badr Airlines flight carrying Sudan’s Sovereignty Council head, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, following recent […]

Paramilitary attack in Sudan: 53 killed, including children and women; refugee shelter bombed in Darfur city

At least 53 people, including 14 children and 15 women, were killed when Sudanese paramilitary forces launched an assault on a shelter in a surrounded Darfur city, according to a medical organisation’s report on Saturday.The Sudan Doctors’ Network, quoted by AP, reported that the bombardment of el-Fasher also resulted in injuries to 21 people, including […]

Sudan landslide: 100 bodies recovered in Darfur; over 1,000 feared dead as village wiped out | World News

Rescue teams recover 100 bodies in Darfur village; over thousands fear killed (Pic credit: AP) Rescue teams have recovered at least 100 bodies after a massive landslide buried an entire mountain village in Sudan’s Darfur region, a rebel group said on Wednesday. The Abdulwahid al-Nur faction of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) reported that torrential […]

Is Africa becoming the US’s dumping ground of migrants?

US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration is a cornerstone of his domestic policy, forming part of his controversial campaign pledge to carry out “the largest deportation operation in American history.“Deporting those migrants to African countries, however, was not part of the original plan he announced when he ran for the presidency in 2024.But […]

US deports 8 migrants to South Sudan: Legal challenges overruled by supreme court; critics call move unconstitutional

US President Donald Trump (AP) The Trump administration has deported eight migrants to South Sudan, a US department of homeland security official confirmed, after plans to initially send them to a base in Djibouti were called off.“A district judge cannot dictate the national security and foreign policy of the United States of America,” assistant secretary […]