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A civil war has been raging in Sudan since April last year. Photo: AFP

Why Chinese investors are also waiting for Sudan’s civil war to end

Prolonged fighting in Sudan is keeping Chinese companies out but plans are in place to go back in once the violence ends.

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Sudan sees sexual violence on ‘staggering’ scale amid civil war: UN

Paramilitary rampage kills more than 120 in east-central Sudan

Sudan paramilitary attack kills 50, activists say

The attack comes after a defection by a commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to Sudan’s regular army.

A Sudanese national flag attached to a machine gun of Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) soldiers. Photo: Reuters

Ethiopian dam could muddy the waters of China’s position as a global leader

A long-running dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam could force Beijing into an impossible situation, observers say.

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‘Barely anyone left’ as Sudan’s El Fasher devastated by fighting

Sudan’s 17-month civil war has claimed tens of thousands of lives and caused the world’s largest displacement crisis.

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UN analysts report ‘unprecedented’ combat in Sudan amid famine, displacement

The foreign ministry of Sudan rejected appeals by UN experts to deploy an ‘impartial force’ for civilian protection.

A World Food Programme truck backs up to load food items from a recently landed UN helicopter, in Yida camp, South Sudan, on Saturday. Photo: AP

Market shelling kills 21 after Sudan rejects UN call for ‘impartial’ force to protect civilians

Dozens more were injured in Sunday’s attack, which was blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

Scores killed after dam bursts in Sudan

Cholera outbreak kills at least 22 people in Sudan, health minister says

Highly contagious cholera causes diarrhoea, leading to dehydration and possible death within hours when not treated, according to the WHO.

A child suffering from cholera receives treatment at a rural isolation centre in Wad Al-Hilu, Kassala state, eastern Sudan on Sunday. Photo: AFP

Activists say 22 killed in RSF attacks, the first after weeks of stalemate

The al-Fashir Resistance Committees said that the RSF had fired artillery shells on markets, hospitals and residential apartments.

People sit near their tents at a camp for displaced people in Sinja town, eastern Sudan, on Wednesday. The civil war in Sudan is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with an estimated 10 million internally displaced people. Photo: EPA-EFE

Opinion | Why can’t US and China jointly seek Middle East peace and still compete?

Although they support rival camps and pursue divergent geopolitical games, the US and China are also working for the same thing: the region’s security and stability.

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Blinken highlights China’s Uygurs as ‘genocide’ victims at US report launch

America’s top diplomat pledges to keep raising atrocities with responsible governments days before he is expected to meet senior officials in Beijing.

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Outside In | As governments boost defence spending, the needy are being robbed

With so many nations struggling to provide electricity and clean water, and to rebuild healthcare and education, it’s a travesty that billions of dollars are being diverted to arms production and defence.

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Israel’s anti-missile system responds to Iran’s drones and missiles on April 14. The cost of the 200-300 Iranian projectiles and the estimated US$50,000 price of each of the hundreds of Tamir interceptor missiles deployed add up to a multimillion-dollar bill for just one night. Photo: Reuters

Economy another victim of war in impoverished Sudan

The war has led industries to cease production, while businesses and food stocks have been looted.

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Traders and donkey farmers gather in an open market in Gedaref state in eastern Sudan on February 16, amid increasing uses for donkeys in transportation due to fuel and petrol shortages in the war-torn country. Photo: AFP

Opinion | After a hot 2023 – from wars to the weather – may 2024 be cooler

It has been a hot year in too many ways, with temperatures rising and wars unfolding, and a good deal of hypocrisy in evidence.

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Outside In | Israel-Gaza war is just one example of how conflict is the biggest driver of world hunger

Almost all of the world’s worst food crises are the products of or worsened by war – from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan and Somalia, to Syria, Yemen and now, Gaza.

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Sudan’s capital in flames as war rages across the country

Footage on social media shows Khartoum’s buildings burning and smouldering with windows blown out and walls charred or pockmarked with bullets. Thousands have died and millions have been displaced since war erupted on April 15.

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A fire raging at the Greater Nile Petroleum Oil Company Tower in Khartoum. Photo: AFP

Desperate Sudanese face endless wait for passports so they can flee

Hundreds of people have lined up daily outside a new passport office in Port Sudan since it was inaugurated in late August.

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Air raid kills 46 in one of Sudan war’s worst attacks: activists

The attack in Khartoum came about a week after another air strike, also in Khartoum, killed 20 civilians, according to activists.

Fears of new civil war as fighting flares in South Darfur

Darfur and Sudan’s capital Khartoum have borne the brunt of 4 months of fighting between the army and the paramilitary, led by rival generals vying for power.

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Sudanese people fleeing the conflict in the Darfur region. Photo: Photo

More than 1 million may flee Sudan bloodshed: UN

Refugee agency said estimates of a million people fleeing by October ‘may be conservative’; crisis has ‘potential to destabilise entire region and beyond, as much as Ukraine does in Europe’.

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Women carrying belongings walk down a street in Omdurman, a city in war-torn Sudan, on Monday, the day a one-week ceasefire aiming to allow humanitarian aid for civilians is due to expire. Photo: AFP

Sudan becomes battleground for foreign fighters

Sudan has long sent mercenaries abroad, but now the country itself has become a battleground for foreign fighters and shadowy military backers lured by money and gold, experts say.

Blasts rock Khartoum as Sudan’s warring sides affirm pledge

Envoys are have been in the Saudi city of Jeddah for a week for talks intended ‘to protect Sudan from any escalation’ as brutal urban warfare continues to batter the densely populated capital.

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Sudan’s warring sides begin talks in Saudi Arabia as fighting resumes

Riyadh and Washington earlier welcomed the ‘pre-negotiation talks’ between the army and the RSF, but both sides have made it clear they would only discuss a humanitarian truce, not negotiate an end to the war.

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A Sudanese evacuee carries her son as they leave the USNS Brunswick at Jeddah port, Saudi Arabia. Photo: AP

Joe Biden paves way for new Sudan sanctions

Order signed laying the groundwork for potential sanctions as intelligence chief warns conflict is unlikely to end soon.

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“The violence taking place in Sudan is a tragedy – and it is a betrayal of the Sudanese people’s clear demand for civilian government and a transition to democracy,” President Biden said. Photo: EPA-EFE

Evacuated from Sudan, Chinese nationals reunite with families in Beijing

UN pressures Sudan’s warring generals after aid looted

The United Nations pressed Sudan’s warring factions to guarantee safe passage of humanitarian aid after six trucks were looted and air strikes in the capital undermined a supposed truce.

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Sudan
The latest news, analysis and opinion on Sudan. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.
Capital
Khartoum
Head of State
General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan
Head of Government
Acting Prime Minister Osman Hussein
last updated:
25 September, 2024
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