5 days ago · Officials and others in the capital of North Darfur province had cited a similar figure Saturday, but Tedros is the first international source to provide a casualty number. Reporting on Sudan is incredibly difficult given communication challenges, the indiscriminate violence faced by civilians and exaggerations by both the RSF and the Sudanese ...

3 days ago · 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 government forces for 19 months.. Karim Khan told the U.N. Security Council that crimes are being ...

3 days ago · This breakthrough in Khartoum follows the January 11 recapture of Wad Madani, the capital of Gezira – an agricultural region along the Nile, some 100km to the south – which fell to the ...

5 days ago · Khartoum is accusing Juba of supporting the RSF and fuelling an escalation in the conflict. The diplomatic dispute follows reports of 16 Sudanese citizens, including a doctor, killed across four provinces in South Sudan and allegations of civilians from the Darfur region being killed in areas of Sudan recently regained by the army.

4 days ago · A separate conflict that remained unresolved centred on the Darfur region in western Sudan. The conflict began in 2003 when rebels launched an insurrection to protest what they contended was the Sudanese government’s disregard

Jan 14, 2025 · The capital Khartoum and the rest of Sudan have been at war since April 2023 [File: AP Photo] Dividing line. ... During the Darfur war, the SLA-MM and JEM rebelled against the central government ...

Jun 30, 2023 · In 2023, a new conflict has engulfed the streets of Sudan's capital, Khartoum, while violence escalates in the restive western region. Where does this leave Darfur? Jérôme Tubiana, who has...

Starting in October 2023, momentum began to swing toward the RSF, as the paramilitary defeated army forces in Darfur and made gains in Khartoum State, Kordofan, and Gezira State. Since February 2024, the SAF has made gains in Omdurman.

Dec 4, 2023 · Since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on 15 April 2023, violence has ravaged the capital Khartoum and the adjoining cities of Omdurman and Bahri.

Because of Khartoum's central location, the city has often been spared in attacks by rebel groups throughout the War in Darfur, with the exception of the 2008 Omdurman attack, in which the Justice and Equality Movement attempted to overthrow the Omar al-Bashir regime.