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Sudan: Journalists Condemn Shooting of Photojournalist and 'Continued Press Attacks'
Dabanga, 6 July 2023
Photojournalist and Sudanese Journalists Syndicate (SJS) member Ali Shata was shot in the left thigh by soldiers reportedly "affiliated with the Rapid Support Forces" in Khartoum… Read more »
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Sudan: Tribal Alignment Raises Concerns Over Civilian Involvement in Armed Conflict
Dabanga, 7 July 2023
Recent developments in Sudan have caused the emergence of a tribal mobilisation effort, as well as an alignment between certain tribes, particularly in the war-scarred regions of… Read more »
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Sudan: Dozens Dead in Khartoum Shelling Havoc
Dabanga, 6 July 2023
At least 24 civilians reportedly died in fighting in and around the Sudanese capital of Khartoum and its adjacent city Omdurman; more than 20 in Omdurman on Tuesday and four more… Read more »
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Sudan: UN Voices 'Shock and Condemnation' As Gender-Based Violence Soars Across Sudan
UN News, 5 July 2023
The UN's top humanitarian officials on Wednesday voiced shock and condemnation over increasing reports of gender-based violence in Sudan as the military power struggle there… Read more »
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Sudan: Gender Based Violence Unit Documented Nearly 90 Cases of Sexual Assault Against Women and Girls
DW, 6 July 2023
Dozens of women and girls have been raped and sexually assaulted by fighters in Sudan as the conflict approaches its third month. Read more »
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Sudan: Military Spending Through the Roof While Economy Grinds to a Halt - Party Leader
Dabanga, 4 July 2023
Siddig El Sadig El Mahdi, leading member of the National Umma Party (NUP) warned of the economic impact of the ongoing war in Sudan and said that the daily military spending… Read more »
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Sudan: Public Support for the RSF From Seven Tribal Leaders in South Darfur
Dabanga, 4 July 2023
Seven tribal leaders in South Darfur have declared their support for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the war between the paramilitary RSF and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF). Read more »
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Sudan: Sudan Today Follows Decades of Justice Denied
HRW, 26 June 2023
In late 2004, as the war in Darfur raged into its second year, I was working with a humanitarian organization based in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur. On our way to one of our… Read more »
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Sudan: 'Unprecedented Pace' of Fighting in Sudan's Omdurman
Dabanga, 4 July 2023
Eyewitnesses report that the pace of fighting in Omdurman, especially in El Thawrat, Ombadda, and Wad El Bashir, has "escalated in an unprecedented manner" since Sunday with… Read more »
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West Africa: Sahel - The War in Sudan
Centre 4s, 3 July 2023
"Today what happens everywhere can be seen and heard everywhere". Read more »
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Sudan: Army Echoes Top General's Call for Volunteers As Paramilitary Force Holds On
DW, 3 July 2023
It is unclear if the Sudanese army's call for fighting volunteers is a forced conscription. Meanwhile, fighting between the army and the paramilitary RSF has persisted in the… Read more »
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Sudan: West Darfur Refugees Tell of More Horrors, Say RSF Killed Children
Dabanga, 3 July 2023
Those who have recently fled to Chad have told Radio Dabanga of more horrors in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur, including the killing of 20 children by the Rapid Support Forces… Read more »
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Sudan: No End in Sight After Nearly 50 Days of Fighting
VOA, 30 June 2023
Analysts monitoring Sudan say it might take an internationally supported peacekeeping force to end the ongoing fighting there. That assessment follows multiple failed cease-fire… Read more »
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Sudan: NGOs Urge U.S., UK, EU, and Canada to Ratchet Up Pressure to End Conflict
Dabanga, 2 July 2023
The humanitarian situation in Sudan is worsening by the day, and Sudan's route to democratic rule is looking bleak. The Netherlands-based international press freedom organisation… Read more »
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Sudan: El Burhan 'Accepts Any Turkish Initiative to Bring Peace to Sudan', RSF Releases Prisoners
Dabanga, 30 June 2023
Chairman of the Sovereignty Council and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) Abdelfattah El Burhan accepts Turkey as a mediator in the armed conflict with the… Read more »
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Sudan: Sudanese Army Chief Urges Civilians to Takeup Arms to Fight Paramilitary Forces
Ghanaian Times, 30 June 2023
General Commander of the Sudanese Armed Force, Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, on Tuesday urged those who are able to carry arms to join the fight against the paramilitary forces. Read more »
UN Expresses Shock as Sudan's Gender-Based Violence Soars
The violations include conflict-related sexual violence against internally displaced and refugee women and girls. On Wednesday July 5, 2023, various United Nations agency chiefs called for an immediate end to the violence, including sexual violence as a tactic of war to terrorize people.
They demanded prompt, thorough, impartial and independent investigations into all alleged gross violations and abuses of human rights and international humanitarian law; and for perpetrators to be held accountable.
In Sudan, Radio Dabanga says that at least 24 civilians reportedly died in fighting in and around Khartoum and its adjacent city Omdurman on Tuesday July 4 and four more in Khartoum on Wednesday.
Radio Dabanga also reports that photojournalist and Sudanese Journalists Syndicate (SJS) member Ali Shata was shot in the left thigh by soldiers reportedly "affiliated with the Rapid Support Forces" in Khartoum whilst he was reporting for Sudan TV on Monday. The SJS denounced the shooting as a "violent act meant to muzzle and prevent them from expressing their opinions".
InFocus
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Commander-in-Chief of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and president of the Sovereignty Council, Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, has called for a "general mobilisation" of all young and ... Read more »
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Médecins Sans Frontières has drawn attention to the thousands of people who escaped the conflict in Sudan by crossing into South Sudan and are now struggling for ... Read more »
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The governor of West Darfur state, Khamis Abakar, was killed on Wednesday June 14, 2023, an armed group he commanded has said. News agencies report that government sources said the ... Read more »
A displaced woman sits on a bed next to the remnants of her burnt house in Khor Abeche, South Darfur (file photo).
