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Uganda: IGAD Urges Sudan Generals to Dialogue, End War
Capital FM, 19 January 2024
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development Heads of State meeting has called on the warring parties in Sudan to agree to a ceasefire, end the war and a face-to-face meeting… Read more »
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MSF, 16 January 2024
What is happening in Wad Madani, Sudan? Read more »
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Egypt: 'Several' Die Crossing Border Into Egypt
Dabanga, 16 January 2024
A number of people fleeing the war in Sudan have reportedly died during perilous smuggling journeys on the road through the Sahara desert into Egypt. On January 8, the United… Read more »
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Sudan: UN Human Rights Council Begins Sudan War Crimes Investigation
UN News, 18 January 2024
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Thursday said he was "deeply concerned" over tit for tat airstrikes carried out by Iran and Pakistan. Read more »
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East Africa: Sudan Govt Snubs IGAD After Hemedti Invited to Summit
Dabanga, 17 January 2024
The government of Sudan has suspended cooperation with the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), after it included discussions on the situation in Sudan on the agenda… Read more »
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Sudan: After a Glimmer of Hope, Sudan's Peace Effort Fades
ISS, 12 January 2024
Burhan and Hemedti, the bitter foes leading Sudan's civil war, have missed two dates to talk peace. Read more »
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Sudan: Sudan Fighting Threatens Merowe UNESCO World Heritage Site
Dabanga, 17 January 2024
Clashes between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been reported near archaeological sites on Merowe Island, a UNESCO World Heritage… Read more »
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Africa: New AU Panel Aims to Broker 'Swift Restoration of Peace' in Sudan
Dabanga, 17 January 2024
The African Union Commission has appointed three prominent African dignitaries to form a High-Level Panel on the Resolution of the Conflict in Sudan "to work with all civilian… Read more »
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Sudan: UN Expert Deplores 'Grim Human Rights Situation'
Dabanga, 17 January 2024
As the brutal armed conflict in Sudan enters its 10th month, the UN expert on human rights in Sudan, Radhouane Nouicer, has urged the leaders of the belligerent parties to the… Read more »
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Sudan: Sudan's Sennar Reports Increase in Cholera Cases
Dabanga, 12 January 2024
At least five people died from cholera in Sennar last week, the state Ministry of Health reported yesterday. Of the 140 patients being treated in January, 129 fully recovered, six… Read more »
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Sudan: World News in Brief - Peacekeeper Killed in CAR, Sudan War Update
UN News, 16 January 2024
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the killing of a Cameroonian peacekeeper on Monday who was serving with the Stabilization Mission in the Central… Read more »
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Sudan: Coordinated International Push Required 'To Keep Sudan From Further Collapse'
Dabanga, 10 January 2024
Sudan's war is entering an even more dangerous phase as fighting spreads to the heavily contested east, spelling more atrocities and mass displacement. Diplomats should seize a new… Read more »
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Sudan: Sudan's Tagaddum Seeks to Build 'Broadest Democratic Civil Front Possible'
Dabanga, 10 January 2024
The Civil Democratic Forces alliance has invited hold-out rebel movements and political parties in Sudan for an urgent consultation meeting about the building of a broad democratic… Read more »
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Sudan: Eastern Sudan Civil Forces Calls On Warring Parties to Keep the Region 'Safe'
Dabanga, 10 January 2024
The Eastern Sudan Civil Forces Alliance yesterday renewed its call on the warring Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) not to transfer the war… Read more »
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Sudan: Over 7.5 Million Displaced People in Sudan After Nine Months of War - UN
RFI, 10 January 2024
The UN coordinating agency OCHA says there have been over 7.5 million people forced from their homes since conflict broke out in April last year. Read more »
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Sudan: MSF Survey Sheds New Light On Scale and Intensity of Ethnic Violence in West Darfur
MSF, 9 January 2024
A retrospective mortality survey carried out among Sudanese refugees in Chad by Epicentre, Médecins Sans Frontières' (MSF) medical research and epidemiology centre,… Read more »
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Sudan: Sudan's Calamitous Civil War - a Chance to Draw Back From the Abyss
Crisis Group, 9 January 2024
Sudan's war is entering an even more dangerous phase as fighting spreads to the heavily contested east, spelling more atrocities and mass displacement. Diplomats should seize a new… Read more »
Sudan's Peace Effort Fades After a Glimmer of Hope
In October last year, the United States and Saudi Arabia convened ceasefire talks in Jeddah. These talks collapsed almost before they began as clashes intensified between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commanded by Mohamed Hamdan 'Hemedti' Dagalo.
The U.S. stepped up its diplomatic efforts, exerting pressure on the generals Burhan and Hemedt, and the region. Leaders of states making up the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) met in Djibouti on 9 December and persuaded Burhan and Hemedti to agree to an unconditional ceasefire, political dialogue and a face-to-face meeting on 28 December.
Both sides are expressing their intention to go back to the negotiation table but pundits are expressing skepticism 'Anyone who doubts the genocidal implications of the Rapid support Forces's military conquests need only watch the militia's own videos of its atrocities against civilians in western Darfur,' Alex de Waal, Head of the World Peace Foundation, wrote on December 14 in Foreign Policy.
Maram Mahdi, Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies, says: 'Based on its recent decisions and statements, the SAF is seemingly a bigger spoiler to the peace process ... refusing to meaningfully engage and negotiate with not only the RSF but civilians and international actors as well. That's why Taqqadum signed the deal with only Hemedti in Addis.
InFocus
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The highly anticipated face-to-face meeting between the top commanders of the warring Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been postponed for ... Read more »
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Sudanese civilians, who are in a vulnerable position since losing their livelihoods because of war, are allegedly being called on to counter a future Rapid Support Forces (RSF) ... Read more »
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Sudan's junta leader, Lt Gen Abdel-Fattah El Burhan, has lashed out at those countries that have received the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Commander Mohamed 'Hemedti' Dagalo during ... Read more »
"I'm worried about the future of my children." I'm thinking about returning to Abyei so that I could provide an education for my children. But if the war comes to an end I'll return to Khartoum and my house as soon as possible, and my husband will be able to work." Photographer: Fais Abubakr | 10/12/2023 | Alsafat Camp, Wad Madani
