Latest Sudan government News

20 killed when a Chinese oil company's flight crashes in South Sudan

Jan. 29, 2025 12:02 PM EST

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — A small plane chartered by a Chinese oil company crashed Wednesday in a remote part of South Sudan, killing 20 people, authorities said. One passenger survived. The flight chartered by Greater Pioneer Operating Co. had 21 people on board, including two...

ICC prosecutor seeking arrest warrants for those accused of atrocities in Sudan's West Darfur region

Jan. 27, 2025 21:38 PM EST

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced Monday that his office will be seeking arrest warrants for those accused of atrocities in Sudan’s West Darfur region, which has seen reported ethnic cleansing by paramilitary forces that have been fighting...

About 70 people killed in attack on hospital in Sudan's Darfur region, WHO chief says

Jan. 26, 2025 14:50 PM EST

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sunday, part of a series of attacks coming as the African nation's civil war escalated in recent...

Fighting in Sudan's civil war sets ablaze the country's largest oil refinery, satellite photos show

Jan. 25, 2025 13:20 PM EST

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Fighting around Sudan 's largest oil refinery set the sprawling complex ablaze, satellite data analyzed by The Associated Press on Saturday shows, sending thick, black smoke over the country's capital. Forces loyal to Sudan’s military under...

South Sudan orders temporary ban on social media over violence in neighboring Sudan

Jan. 22, 2025 16:29 PM EST

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudanese authorities on Wednesday ordered telecoms to block access to social media for at least 30 days, citing concerns over the dissemination of graphic content relating to the ongoing violence against South Sudanese in neighboring Sudan. The...

South Sudan imposes nationwide overnight curfew to curb violence targeting Sudanese traders

Jan. 17, 2025 16:14 PM EST

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudanese authorities have imposed a countrywide dusk-to-dawn curfew after a night of violence during which businesses run by Sudanese traders in the capital were looted. Police chief Gen. Abraham Manyuat said Friday that the curfew will commence from...

New US sanctions target Sudan's warring military leader

Jan. 16, 2025 14:55 PM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. imposed sanctions on the leader of Sudan's military Thursday, saying he was blocking humanitarian aid and bombing hospitals, schools and markets in a war against an armed rival that has created a widening famine and the world's largest displacement crisis. ...

Sudan’s military retakes a strategic city from RSF rebels, dealing them a major blow

Jan. 11, 2025 12:03 PM EST

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s military and its allies have taken back a strategic city from the rebel Rapid Support Forces, officials said Saturday, dealing a major blow to the notorious paramilitary group which the United States accused of committing genocide in the country’s ongoing civil war. ...

Sudan's war is 'deepening and widening' a famine crisis, hunger monitoring report says

Dec. 24, 2024 12:21 PM EST

CAIRO (AP) — Famine is spreading in Sudan due to a war between the military and a notorious paramilitary group that has devastated the country and created the world’s largest displacement crisis, a global hunger monitoring group said Tuesday. The Integrated Food Security Phase...

As flooding becomes a yearly disaster in South Sudan, thousands survive on the edge of a canal

Dec. 22, 2024 02:06 AM EST

AYOD, South Sudan (AP) — Long-horned cattle wade through flooded lands and climb a slope along a canal that has become a refuge for displaced families in South Sudan. Smoke from burning dung rises near homes of mud and grass where thousands of people now live after floods swept away their...