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Several African and Arab countries have sounded the alarm over the dire food situation and risk of famine in Sudan. Morocco’s Permanent Mission to the UN in Geneva said that Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Mauritania, Chad, Comoros Islands, Guinea Bissau, Seychelles, Senegal, Benin, Kenya, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Mozambique, and Nigeria had expressed, in […]
At least 9.1 million Sudanese civilians have been forced to internal displacement following 14 months of a civil war that shows no end in sight, according to UNHCR figures. “Sudan now has the largest internally displaced population ever reported,” UNHCR said in a recent report. Some 2 million people managed to flee to neighboring countries, […]
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed becomes the first foreign leader to visit Sudan for a meeting with army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan since the country’s descent into brutal conflict that has driven nearly 10 million people from their homes and created a humanitarian crisis. Abiy and al-Burhan met in Port Sudan, the new seat of […]
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF) took control of strategic towns as they advance on Port Sudan, where the Sudanese army and UN agencies are based. The advance marks an inroad for the RSF in its war with the Sudanese army, which broke out in April last year, with no end in sight. “We have […]
Nearly 750,000 people are on the brink of starvation in war-torn Sudan, where the conflict between rival army factions aggravates the humanitarian situation, the global authority on famine said. The war left nearly half Sudan’s 48 million population suffering from hunger in areas including the capital Khartum, according to the latest figures from the Integrated […]
Worry grips Egyptian officials who fear a natural disaster as Ethiopia prepares to fill its giant Nile dam, the Great Renaissance Dam, for the fifth time, without any coordination with downstream countries, Egypt and Sudan. Egypt has for long expressed concern at the dam, while Ethiopia argues that the water-sharing deals signed under the colonial […]
The bloody civil war and looming famine in Sudan are pushing thousands of civilians to flee to neighboring Chad and Central African Republic (CAR), whereby the spillover of the conflict is complicating a security landscape in both latter countries, UN officials and experts warn. Activities of armed groups in the volatile CAR have increased as […]
The UAE has dismissed as “false” and “ludicrous allegations” the accusations leveled by Sudan claiming the Gulf Country is providing weapons to the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan’s civil war. Responding to the accusation voiced by Sudanese Ambassador to the united nations Al-Harith Mohamed who claimed that “Sudan is surrounded by major […]
The United Nations and the United States have warned of the risk of famine in Sudan, as both pressed the warring sides to end obstruction of aid for around 18 million people in the war-torn country who are already acutely hungry. The latest UN reports indicate an escalating humanitarian crisis and the risk of famine […]
Sudan’s army has reportedly agreed to allow Russia to established a navy base near Port Sudan on the Red Sea coast in exchange for arms it needs to fight the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as both rival groups are vying for power in the north-eastern African country. The potential deal with Russia that may […]