Latest Sudan government News
Sudan keeps key aid crossing from Chad open for hard-hit Darfur region as famine grows
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Sudan’s military-controlled government said Wednesday that a key border crossing with Chad will stay open to keep much-needed humanitarian aid flowing into the western Darfur region which has been a center of fighting in the country’s ongoing war. The...
Allies providing Sudan's warring parties with weapons are 'enabling the slaughter,' UN official says
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. political chief accused allies of Sudan’s warring military and paramilitary forces on Tuesday of “enabling the slaughter” that has killed more than 24,000 people and created the world’s worst displacement crisis. “This is unconscionable,”...
Rights group calls for international force to protect Sudanese amid a rampage by paramilitaries
CAIRO (AP) — A leading rights group on Monday called for an international force to protect civilians in war-torn Sudan amid reports that a notorious paramilitary group has killed dozens of civilians and committed widespread rapes during a rampage in a province neighboring Khartoum. ...
UN sanctions 2 generals from Sudan's paramilitary force for key roles in war against the military
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...
War in Sudan has displaced over 14 million, or about 30% of the population, UN says
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
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
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
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
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
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...
