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Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) agreed to a proposal from the United States for a humanitarian ceasefire, the group said on Thursday in a statement. CBC | World News
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Capture of Darfur city by Sudan’s paramilitary forces could cement country’s split
A Sudanese paramilitary force is battling the last pockets of resistance in El Fasher, a Darfur city that has endured a brutal 18-month siege and where a full takeover would entrench a geographical division of the country between rival military factions. CBC | World News
Read More »Sudan’s civil war has faded from headlines, but monitors say it’s the largest humanitarian crisis in the world
The UN says more than 12 million Sudanese have been displaced since its civil war began in spring 2023, making it the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. Aid agencies, including Medecins Sans Frontieres, warn the situation could become even more dire if the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces overruns the besieged city of El Fasher in North Darfur. CBC | World ...
Read More »At least 1,000 dead after landslide in Sudan’s Darfur wipes out village
A landslide wiped out a village in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, killing an estimated 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the African country’s recent history, a rebel group controlling the area said late Monday. CBC | World News
Read More »Detention of South Sudan’s VP nullifies peace deal, his party says
The detention of South Sudan’s First Vice President Riek Machar under house arrest has effectively collapsed the peace deal that ended the 2013-2018 civil war, his party said on Thursday. CBC | World News
Read More »Sudan’s military says it has reclaimed presidential palace from rebels
Sudan’s military said Friday it retook the Republican Palace in Khartoum, the last heavily guarded bastion of rival paramilitary forces in the capital, after nearly two years of fighting. CBC | World News
Read More »Ending Sudan’s civil war may require help of countries currently helping inflame it, observers say
Players beyond the borders of Sudan — from its African neighbours to the Gulf States and beyond — are influencing the course of the conflict for their own purposes and increasing the chances of it metastasizing, analysts say. CBC | World News
Read More »The UN sent a mission to the centre of Sudan’s civil war. Here’s what they found
The first UN mission to Khartoum State since the start of Sudan’s civil war paints a grim picture of constant gunfire, maimed children and a population on the brink of famine. CBC | World News
Read More »Refugees from Sudan’s Darfur region report ethnically driven killings by paramilitary group
People fleeing Sudan’s West Darfur region to neighbouring Chad have reported a new surge in ethnically-driven killings, as the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces took over the main army base in the state capital, El Geneina. CBC | World News
Read More »South Sudan’s rival leaders form coalition government
South Sudan opened a new chapter in its fragile emergence from civil war Saturday as rival leaders formed a coalition government that many observers prayed would last this time around. CBC | World News
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