This is Beirut, 07/11 18:10 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
The United Nations warned on Friday of "intensified hostilities" ahead in Sudan, despite paramilitary forces endorsing a truce proposal from mediators after more than two years of war with the regular army. "There is no sign of de-escalation," UN human rights chief Volker Turk said in a statement. "Developments on the ground indicate clear ...
Rayan Chami, 07/11 17:40 - Reading : less than a minute
Massacres, rape, and mass graves. A devastation so vast it’s visible from space. As El-Fasher falls after 18 months under siege, Sudan descends deeper into a war driven by power, profit, and foreign hands. Tens of thousands dead. Millions forced to flee. And as the world turns a blind eye, here’s what you need to know.
This is Beirut, 06/11 19:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Sudan United Nations El Fasher
The UN Human Rights Council announced Thursday that it would hold an urgent session next week on the situation in Sudan's violence-ravaged western city of El-Fasher after it was overrun by paramilitaries. The United Nations' top rights body said in a statement that it would "hold a special session on the human rights situation in and around El ...
This is Beirut, 05/11 11:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United Nations International Criminal Court Sudan Dead El-Obeid
An attack on a funeral in the key city of El-Obeid in Sudan's central Kordofan region killed 40 people, the UN said Wednesday, as paramilitaries looked poised to launch an offensive. The United Nations' humanitarian office did not specify when the attack took place or who was behind it but said that the situation in the Kordofan region was ...
This is Beirut, 04/11 22:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Sudan Rapid Support Forces United States
Sudan's defense minister said on Tuesday that the army would press on with its fight against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces after the country's security and defense council met to discuss a US proposal for a ceasefire. "We thank the Trump administration for its efforts and proposals to achieve peace," Hassan Kabroun said in a speech ...
This is Beirut, 03/11 19:49 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
Sudan El-Fasher Rapid Support Forces
The International Criminal Court warned on Monday that atrocities committed in Sudan's El-Fasher could amount to crimes against humanity and war crimes, as the UN said that thousands had fled a neighboring region where paramilitaries have turned their focus. According to United Nations figures, more than 36,000 civilians have fled towns and ...
This is Beirut, 01/11 12:25 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Sudan El-Fasher Germany Darfur
Satellite imagery suggests mass killings are likely continuing in and around Sudan's El-Fasher, Yale researchers said, as Germany's top diplomat on Saturday described the situation there as "apocalyptic." At war with the regular army since April 2023, the Rapid Support Forces seized El-Fasher on Sunday, pushing the military out of its last ...
This is Beirut, 31/10 14:57 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
United Nations El-Fasher Sudan Darfur
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said they had arrested several of their fighters accused of committing abuses during the capture of the city of El-Fasher, including a man identified by AFP in multiple execution videos. The RSF, at war with the army since April 2023, seized El-Fasher -- the army's last stronghold in western Darfur -- on ...
This is Beirut, 30/10 20:06 - Reading : 5 minute(s)
UN Security Council El-Fasher Rapid Support Forces Sudan
The UN Security Council condemned on Thursday paramilitaries' reported "atrocities" in El-Fasher in western Sudan, where an aid group and activists have described a dire situation since the city's fall. The Rapid Support Forces' capture on Sunday of El-Fasher, the last army holdout in the vast region of Darfur, came after ...
This is Beirut, 28/10 10:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
United Nations Sudan Conflict Darfur RSF
Sudanese army allies, the Joint Forces, accused paramilitaries of having "executed more than 2,000 unarmed civilians" since taking control of the western city of El-Fasher on Sunday, as alarming reports of atrocities emerge. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war with the army for over two years, "committed heinous crimes against innocent ...
This is Beirut, 23/10 09:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Khartoum Sudan United Nations Clashes Drones
Drones targeted the army-held Sudanese capital and its airport on Thursday, witnesses told AFP, marking the third consecutive day of such strikes. "At 4:00 am (0200 GMT) I heard the sound of two drones passing above us," one witness said, adding that the drones were headed towards military facilities. Another witness, meanwhile, said he saw the ...
This is Beirut, 22/10 19:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
Paramilitary drone attacks targeted Khartoum International Airport for a second consecutive day on Wednesday, a Sudanese military source told AFP, as authorities attempted to reopen the facility for domestic flights for the first time in over two years. The airport has been closed since April 2023, when fighting broke out between the Sudanese ...