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US announces over $47 million in humanitarian aid for war-torn Sudan

Mar. 21, 2024 11:24 AM EDT

CAIRO (AP) — The U.S. announced more than $47 million in humanitarian aid for war-torn Sudan and two neighboring countries, to where at least a million people have fled in the nearly 1-year-old conflict. The aid package is expected to help alleviate the suffering of nearly 25...

Sudan is on course to become the world's worst hunger crisis, with children already dying, UN says

Mar. 20, 2024 19:32 PM EDT

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The nearly year-long conflict between Sudan’s military and paramilitary forces has put the African nation on course to become the world’s worst hunger crisis with malnutrition soaring and already claiming children’s lives, the U.N. humanitarian office warned Wednesday....

A paramilitary group at war with Sudan’s military endorses a cease-fire during holy fasting month

Mar. 09, 2024 12:09 PM EST

CAIRO (AP) — A Sudanese paramilitary group battling the country’s military in a nearly yearlong ruinous conflict endorsed Saturday a resolution by the U.N. Security Council calling for a cease-fire during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The group, known as the Rapid Support...

UN Security Council urges Sudan's warring parties to halt hostilities during holy month of Ramadan

Mar. 08, 2024 18:07 PM EST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council urged Sudan’s warring parties on Friday to immediately halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and allow aid to get to 25 million people in desperate need of food and other assistance. Ramadan is expected to begin...

UN chief urges Sudan's warring parties to halt hostilities during Muslim holy month of Ramadan

Mar. 07, 2024 15:00 PM EST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations chief urged Sudan’s warring parties on Thursday to halt hostilities during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, warning that the nearly year-long conflict threatens the country’s unity and “could ignite regional instability of dramatic proportions.” ...

Draft UN resolution calls for cease-fire in conflict-torn Sudan during upcoming Muslim holy month

Mar. 06, 2024 22:20 PM EST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Britain has circulated a draft U.N. resolution calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in conflict-wracked Sudan ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins soon. The draft, obtained late Wednesday by The Associated Press, expresses...

Sudan’s conflict risks creating the world's largest hunger crisis, the top UN food official warns

Mar. 06, 2024 08:48 AM EST

CAIRO (AP) — A ruinous conflict raging for about a year between rival generals in Sudan risks creating the world’s largest hunger crisis, the top U.N. food official warned Wednesday as global attention has been focused on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. Cindy McCain, head of the...

A South Sudan activist in the US is charged with trying to illegally export arms for coup back home

Mar. 05, 2024 19:46 PM EST

PHOENIX (AP) — A leading South Sudanese academic and activist living in exile in the United States has been charged in Arizona along with a Utah man born in the African nation on charges of conspiring to buy and illegally export millions of dollars’ worth of weapons to overthrow the government...

UN experts: Sudan's paramilitary forces carried out ethnic killings and rapes that may be war crimes

Mar. 01, 2024 01:27 AM EST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Paramilitary forces and their allied militias fighting to take power in Sudan carried out widespread ethnic killings and rapes while taking control of much of western Darfur that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, United Nations experts said in a new...

South Sudan blames fighting in neighboring Sudan and attacks in the Red Sea for its crisis

Feb. 28, 2024 07:15 AM EST

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan's government on Tuesday blamed the country's economic crisis in part on the fighting in neighboring Sudan and the instability in the Red Sea, where Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been attacking international shipping. With most government workers...