The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has welcomed the US-backed cease-fire talks in Switzerland next month. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has invited the Sudanese Army and the RSF group to start the mediated negotiations beginning on Aug. 14. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the paramilitary group’s leader, said in a statement...
United Nations, United States – AFP The UN Security Council on Thursday demanded an end to the siege of El-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region, where fighting between government and paramilitary forces has provoked a humanitarian crisis. War has raged for more than a year between the regular military under army chief Abdel Fattah al-Bu...
Port Sudan, Sudan — AFP Clashes reignited between the Sudanese army and rival paramilitaries earlier this week in the key Darfur town of El-Fasher, the United Nations has said, killing at least 27 people in one day. Eyewitnesses have reported air strikes, artillery fire and machine gun clashes battering the city since Friday, when an [&h...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – More than 13,000 people have been killed and 26,000 others injured in the ongoing conflict in Sudan, the United Nations humanitarian office said Sunday. Sudan has been mired by fighting between the army, led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the country’s ruling Sovereign Council, and the Rapid Support Forces [&hel...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The US has reiterated its call for Sudan’s warring rivals to end their “brutal conflict” and allow Sudanese people to live in peace. “The warring parties must end this brutal conflict,”c, assistant State Secretary, told Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan during a meeting on the sideli...
