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A partial collapse of a gold mine in southern Sudan has killed 13 miners and injured six others, according to the state-run Sudanese Mineral Resources Company (SMRC) in a statement issued on Wednesday. The incident occurred last Friday in five abandoned shafts at the Umm Fakroun mine in South Kordofan state. SMRC said the shafts […]
Sudanese army forces have entered Dilling, the second-largest city in South Kordofan, ending a siege imposed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since January 2024, the military said on Monday, January 26. In a statement, the army said it reopened the road to Dilling following a successful military operation that forced RSF fighters to […]
Sudanese Government sources report that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) launched a major attack on January 25, targeting Al-Sillik, Milkan, and other areas in Bau County, Blue Nile region, from South Sudanese territory. The Sudanese army’s 4th Infantry Division engaged in heavy fighting to repel the assault, described by […]
Sudan’s Sovereign Council and cabinet approved the 2026 emergency budget on Wednesday, marking their first joint meeting in Khartoum since the conflict erupted in April 2023. The Sovereign Council said the meeting followed the return of the military-led body and the “Government of Hope” to the capital. Information Minister Khalid Aleisir confirmed that the budget […]
Families across Sudan are being driven to the edge by prolonged conflict and worsening famine, with the World Food Programme warning that severe funding shortages are jeopardizing its life-saving operations. More than 1,000 days after conflict reignited in April 2023, the agency says the world’s largest hunger and displacement crisis shows no sign of easing. […]
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has reiterated that Egypt’s water security is a matter of existential importance, directly intertwined with the country’s national security. Speaking on Wednesday, 14 January 2026, during a meeting in Cairo with US Senior Adviser for Arab and African Affairs Massad Boulos, El-Sisi stressed that safeguarding water resources remains a top strategic […]
Efforts to end Sudan’s protracted conflict resumed in Cairo on Wednesday, with Egypt and the United Nations urging the warring parties to agree to a nationwide humanitarian truce as the war approaches its third anniversary. Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty underscored that Sudan’s unity and state institutions are “red lines,” rejecting any recognition of parallel […]
At least 32 people were killed and 86 others injured on Monday in drone strikes attributed to Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in central and southern parts of the country, according to local and medical sources. In Sinja, Sinnar State, at least 27 people were killed and 73 wounded when an RSF drone struck […]
Sudan’s government formally returned to the capital, Khartoum, on Sunday, marking its first presence there since the outbreak of war with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023. Prime Minister Kamel Idris, arriving from Port Sudan where the administration had been temporarily based, described the move as a national turning point and promised […]
Nearly 65,000 civilians have been displaced from Sudan’s Kordofan region over the past three months as insecurity intensifies, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. In a statement, the UN agency reported that about 64,890 people were forced to flee their homes between October 25 and December 30, 2025, amid worsening security conditions. The IOM […]