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UN sanctions 2 generals from Sudan's paramilitary force for key roles in war against the military

Nov. 08, 2024 23:52 PM EST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions Friday on two generals in Sudan’s paramilitary force for their key roles in the war against the country’s military that has seen ethnically motivated attacks and atrocities. Sudan plunged into conflict...

Presidents of South Sudan and Kenya push for a resolution in stalled peace talks

Nov. 06, 2024 14:41 PM EST

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan peace talks, previously held in neighboring Kenya, will resume under a directive from President Salva Kiir and his Kenyan counterpart, William Ruto, who met Wednesday and directed the mediation team to reconvene and resolve all outstanding issues within two...

Head of UN-backed team of experts cites paramilitary force in Sudan for sexual violence as war rages

Nov. 01, 2024 17:14 PM EDT

GENEVA (AP) — The head of a U.N.-backed fact-finding team looking into human rights violations and abuses in Sudan said Friday it found the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces responsible for large-scale sexual violence in areas that it controls. Mohamed Chande Othman has denounced...

UN report warns of famine, aggravated by conflicts and climate shocks

Oct. 31, 2024 16:53 PM EDT

ROME (AP) — Severe food crises threaten hundreds of thousands of people in vulnerable areas, including the Palestinian territories, Sudan, South Sudan, Haiti, and Mali, said a report released Thursday by the United Nations' food agencies. Conflicts, economic instability, and...

War in Sudan has displaced over 14 million, or about 30% of the population, UN says

Oct. 29, 2024 07:25 AM EDT

CAIRO (AP) — The war in Sudan has displaced more than 14 million people, or about 30% of the population, since it broke out over a year ago, creating the world’s largest displacement crisis this year, the International Organization for Migration said Tuesday. Of those, 11 million...

Sudan's warring forces are escalating attacks and outsiders are 'fueling the fire,' Guterres says

Oct. 28, 2024 23:01 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces are escalating attacks with outside powers “fueling the fire,” which is intensifying the nightmare of hunger and disease for millions, the United Nations chief said Monday. Secretary-General Antonio...

More than 120 killed in paramilitary rampage in east-central Sudan, UN and a doctors group say

Oct. 27, 2024 15:03 PM EDT

CAIRO (AP) — Fighters from the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ran riot in east-central Sudan in a multi-day attack that killed more than 120 people in one town, a doctors group and the United Nations said. It was the group's latest attack against the Sudanese military...

UN official calls for more attention to Sudan’s 'forgotten' war amid fresh atrocities

Oct. 25, 2024 17:04 PM EDT

CAIRO (AP) — A senior United Nations official on Friday called for more international attention to “the forgotten crisis” in Sudan, where more than a year and a half of war pushed the African country to the brink of famine. The appeal by Ted Chaiban, deputy head of the U.N....

Mystery of downed airplane in Sudan deepens as Kyrgyzstan insists aircraft had been de-registered

Oct. 22, 2024 08:34 AM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The mystery surrounding a crashed cargo plane in Sudan purportedly downed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces deepened Tuesday as authorities insisted the aircraft had been de-registered in Kyrgyzstan. Just who was flying the Ilyushin Il-76...

Russia investigates the claimed shoot-down of a cargo jet in Sudan's Darfur region

Oct. 21, 2024 14:38 PM EDT

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said Monday they shot down a cargo jet in the country’s far western reaches of Darfur, a claim that Russian diplomats said they were trying to investigate in the war zone. Mobile phone footage showed...