WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden urged Sudan’s warring parties Tuesday to re-engage in negotiations and facilitate humanitarian access. “I call on the belligerents responsible for Sudanese suffering—the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)—to pull back their forces, facilitate unhindered humanit...
United Nations, United States — AFP Senior UN officials have warned the Security Council of the risks of a new front opening in Sudan, around the town of el-Fasher in Darfur, where the population is already on the brink of starvation. After a year of war between the armed forces (SAF) of General Abdel Fattah […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US expressed alarm Wednesday over an increase in indiscriminate air and artillery strikes in Sudan, which have killed a large number of civilians. “The United States is alarmed by the recent increase of indiscriminate air and artillery strikes in Sudan, including in Khartoum, South Darfur and South Kordofan st...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has sanctioned a high-ranking leader and a regional commander within Sudan’s Rapid Security Forces (RSF). Abdelrahim Hamdan Dagalo, the senior RSF official, is being sanctioned for the RSF’s “acts of violence and human rights abuses, including the massacre of civilians, ethnic killings, and use ...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan has condemned comments made by US Ambassador John Godfrey in which he said neither side in the current conflict “is fit to govern.” On Friday, Godfrey called on the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group to end their conflict and transfer power to civilians. “The belligerents, […...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN’s humanitarian affairs chief said Tuesday that he is “deeply concerned” by renewed fighting in Sudan, warning that aid routes have been blocked as food runs out in the war-torn country. Martin Griffiths said fighting has become especially fierce in South Darfur and South Kordofan, urging the war...
