Geneva, Switzerland — AFP Flagrant rights violations by Sudan’s warring parties require the deployment of an “independent and impartial force” to protect millions of civilians driven from their homes, UN experts have said. An independent fact-finding mission said it had uncovered “harrowing” violations by bo...
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...
Geneva, Switzerland – – AFP War and hunger threaten to “consume” all of Sudan, where hundreds of thousands of malnourished children are at risk of dying, the UN has warned, decrying a dire lack of aid funding. After four months of a bloody power struggle between Sudan’s army and its former ally the paramilitary Ra...
