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International Committee of the Red Cross

Residential areas, markets and areas sheltering displaced populations have been particularly affected, with hundreds of people reportedly killed.

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(MENAFN) Sudan’s army seized back two areas in the Blue Nile region on Thursday, including a strategically important military base, after fighting with paramilitary forces, Sudanese media reported.

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(MENAFN) Diplomatic activity aimed at ending Sudan’s civil war is picking up even as fighting continues, the UN secretary-general’s personal envoy for the country said Wednesday, pointing to new confidence-building initiatives. “We also are...

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(MENAFN) Sudan’s army claimed Tuesday that it fought off a coordinated assault by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its ally, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), on military positions in the Sali area of eastern...

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(MENAFN) Sudan’s military announced Monday that it had thwarted a ground offensive by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allied Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) in Blue Nile state, while air defenses intercepted...

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(MENAFN) Diplomats and international organizations convened in Geneva on Wednesday for the sixth consultative meeting on advancing peace in Sudan, seeking to sharpen coordination among rival diplomatic tracks, ease hostilities and back an...

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(MENAFN) Recent Sudanese military airstrikes against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, have caused significant losses in personnel and equipment, according to a regional government official.

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(MENAFN) A senior regional official said Sunday that recent Sudanese army airstrikes on Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, dealt heavy losses to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Ahmed Ishaq Shanab, information minister and...

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(MENAFN) At least 11 people were killed and five others wounded when the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked a displacement camp in Sudan’s western Darfur region on Saturday, a government official said Sunday.

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(MENAFN) A senior UN official has sounded the alarm over Sudan, warning that the war is sliding further into crisis with no end in sight as civilians endure relentless fighting, worsening hunger and economic ruin.

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(MENAFN) Washington has issued an urgent appeal for a humanitarian truce in Sudan, warning that civilians are dying from gunfire, starvation and collapsing health services as famine looms.

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(MENAFN) The Sudanese army has captured the Bir Kelekel area in West Darfur state after clashes with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a Sudanese official said Wednesday.

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(MENAFN) Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ordered a fact-finding investigation on Monday into reports that 72 miners were killed near the Egyptian border on Saturday.

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(MENAFN) Sudan’s military said Monday that its air defenses had destroyed a “hostile” strategic drone near the Wad al-Mahi area in southeastern Blue Nile state after the aircraft entered Sudanese airspace from neighboring Ethiopia.

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(MENAFN) Sudan’s army said Monday it destroyed a “hostile” strategic drone over southeastern Blue Nile state, a fresh sign of the widening conflict along the Ethiopian border.

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(MENAFN) Sudan’s military announced Monday that its air defenses had intercepted and destroyed a “hostile” strategic drone near Wad al-Mahi in the southeastern Blue Nile state after it entered Sudanese territory from Ethiopia.

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(MENAFN) A drone attack blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) destroyed a hospital in southeastern Sudan’s Blue Nile state on Sunday and left two medical workers gravely wounded, a Sudanese medical group said Monday.

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(MENAFN) Sudan's army chief and Sovereign Council Chairman Abdel Fattah al-Burhan pledged on Tuesday to press on with the war against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) until “every inch” of the country is back under state control,...

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(MENAFN) Another 1,770 people from 354 households have been uprooted from villages in Sudan's southern Blue Nile state as security there continues to unravel, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Tuesday.

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(MENAFN) Drone strikes on two communities sheltering displaced families in Sudan’s West Kordofan state have killed at least 17 civilians, among them women and children, the UN said Sunday, voicing deep concern over the attacks.