Sudan army chief visits Khartoum headquarters, vows to defeat RSF paramilitary
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Sudanese army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan visited its strategic headquarters in central Khartoum on Sunday in his first appearance there since government forces claimed to have broken a months-long siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Accompanied by senior military leaders, Burhan praised the “resilience and sacrifices” of soldiers who […]
Sudanese army chief says army will support peace if it ends RSF “occupation”
Dubai, United Arab Emirates Reuters Sudan’s army launched artillery and air strikes in Sudan’s capital on Thursday in its biggest operation to regain ground there since early in its 17-month war with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), witnesses and military sources said. The push by the army, which lost control of most of the capital […]
Sudan conflict: Unruly RSF fighters sow chaos in farming heartland
NAFISA ELTAHIR and KHALID ABDELAZIZ, of Reuters, report on witness accounts of the looting, kidnapping and killing that have taken place after the Rapid Support Forces seized most of the state of El Gezira in December…
Sudan’s army rejects US call to return to peace talks
Cairo, Egypt Reuters Sudan’s army on Wednesday rejected a call to return to peace talks with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces following a conversation between General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Thousands of people have been killed and more than nine million have fled their homes in the war between […]
UN rights chief warns of catastrophe in Sudan’s al-Fashir
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The UN human rights chief said he was “horrified” by escalating violence near Sudan’s al-Fashir and held discussions last week with commanders from both sides of the conflict, warning of a humanitarian disaster if the city is attacked. Hundreds of thousands of people are sheltering in al-Fashir without basic supplies amid fears […]
Essay: Sudan’s civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight
In an article first published on the Conversation, JAN POSPISIL, an associate professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University in the UK, looks at the two-year-old conflict in Sudan and the challenges facing a peaceful resolution…
“Grave danger”: Millions of Sudanese go hungry as war disrupts food supply
NAFISA ELTAHIR, of Reuters, reports on the daily struggle Sudanese are facing to find food in a nation riven by war…
Essay: Peace in Sudan is elusive for any would-be mediators – but a new window of opportunity has opened for outside intervention
HYERAN JO, a political science professor who studies civil conflicts, looks – in an article first published on The Conversation – at the possibility for peace in Sudan…
Sudan’s army chief says he favours negotiated settlement to war
New York, US/Cairo, Egypt Reuters Sudan’s army chief said on Friday he had not sought military support on a recent regional tour and that his preference was for a peaceful solution to the conflict that has killed thousands and displaced millions of civilians. General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan also said in an interview with Reuters that […]
Sudan paramilitary threatens to set up authority with Khartoum as capital
Cairo, Egypt Reuters The head of Sudan’s main paramilitary group threatened on Thursday to set up a governing authority in areas his forces control if his enemies in the army form a government. Rapid Support Forces commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has been fighting the army for almost five months in a conflict that has wrecked […]