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Sudan: Sudan Armed Forces Are On a Path to Self-Destruction - Risking State Collapse
The Conversation Africa, 19 February 2024
It is now 10 months since the outbreak of civil war in Sudan in April 2023, pitting the Sudan Armed Forces against the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary group. The war,… Read more »
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Sudan: South Sudan Refugees Among Those Killed in Sudan Army Strike
allAfrica, 21 February 2024
Darfur24 reports that a Sudanese army air strike left five cilivians dead and injuring several in Tadamon and the old Zariba in the city of El Daein, the capital of East… Read more »
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Congo-Kinshasa: UN Security Council Sanctions 6 Rebel Leaders in Congo
VOA, 20 February 2024
The U.N. Security Council designated six individuals for sanctions Tuesday for their destabilizing activities in Congo, where violence has escalated in the east this year,… Read more »
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Africa: As Sudan's War Rages, Fallout Spreads in Nearby Countries
WFP, 19 February 2024
Kadidja Abakar is haunted by the people she left behind, after fleeing her home in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region. Read more »
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Sudan: Communications Blackout Continues in Large Parts of Sudan
Dabanga, 19 February 2024
The total telecommunications and internet blackout continues in Khartoum, El Gezira, Blue Nile region and other parts of Sudan. The outages are causing a severe cash crisis in the… Read more »
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Sudan: Civil Society Orgs Urge AU Military Intervention in Sudan
Dabanga, 18 February 2024
Representatives of Sudanese and African civil society organisations held a consultative meeting on the sidelines of the annual African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital on… Read more »
Sudan Armed Forces 'On Path to Self-Destruction'
The once mighty Sudanese Armed Forces have made military and political errors that have increased the possibility of their disintegration and the collapse of the Sudanese state, argues Harry Verhoeven, Senior Research Scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University . He says the ongoing civil war could be the trigger for an implosion, "but not the underlying cause".
The Sudan Armed Forces have suffered numerous setbacks at the hands of the Rapid Support Forces, who have overrun most of Darfur and swathes of South Kordofan in the west of the country.
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An "unpublished report" on Darfur by a UN Security Council Panel of Experts has revealed how assaults by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) resulted in the deaths of 237 patients, Da Read more »
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Experts discussing the war in Sudan at a business forum have said that it's fueled by corruption - pointing to the involvement of foreign countries "given Read more »
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Sudan's security forces fired teargas at protesting teachers on Sunday November 7, 2021 as a two-day nationwide civil disobedience campaign demanding civilian rule began. Civil ... Read more »
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The United Nations reports that two of their peacekeepers - Ghanaian and Pakistani - were killed in separate incidents, after clashes in the disputed, oil-rich Abyei regio 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."
