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Sudan
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:
5 December, 2024
A Sudanese army soldier mans a machine gun on top of a military pickup truck outside a hospital in Omdurman on November 2. Photo: AFP
Africa

‘Horrendous massacre’: over 100 killed in Sudanese air strike on Darfur market

The attack is the latest in a series of escalating violence in Sudan’s 20-month war, with both sides accused of targeting civilians.

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Diplomacy

Opinion | Can Global South and G20 lead new era of poverty reduction?

China-Africa relations

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

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Africa

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

Children are not spared the abuse, while women and girls are being abducted for sexual slavery.

Civilians who fled war-torn Sudan arrive at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees transit centre in Renk. Photo: Reuters
Africa

Paramilitary rampage kills more than 120 in east-central Sudan

UN and doctors groups say the Rapid Support Forces ran riot in a multi-day attack in the province of Gezira, from October 20 to 25.

Africa

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.

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China-Africa relations

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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The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is continuing to cause rifts between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan. But China may be cautious to try to broker a deal as any involvement is likely to cause anger. Photo: AFP
Africa

‘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.

Africa

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.

Africa

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.

Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit. File photo: AP

Scores killed after dam bursts in Sudan

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United Nations

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.

Africa

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.

Middle East

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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US-China relations

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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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivers remarks on the release of America’s annual human rights report in Washington on Monday. Photo: EPA-EFE
Israel-Gaza war

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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Africa

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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Israel-Gaza war

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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Pedestrians walk down a footbridge, in Central, Hong Kong, with cooling pads on their foreheads during a hot day in June. Photo: Xiaomei Chen
War and conflict

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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Africa

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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Africa

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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Sudanese wait at a Passports and Immigration Services office in Port Sudan on September 3. Photo: AFP
Africa

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.

Smoke rises above buildings after an aerial bombardment in Khartoum, Sudan in May. On Sunday, air strikes killed at least 46 people and injured dozens at a Khartoum market. File photo: Reuters
Africa

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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Africa

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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Africa

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.

Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has accused the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of recruiting fighters from troubled nearby countries. File photo: AP
War and conflict

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 army and rival paramilitary RSF sign a declaration in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia that signifies their commitment to protect the civilians of Sudan but not to a ceasefire. Photo: Reuters
Africa

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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Africa

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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