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Capital

Khartoum

Head of State

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan

Head of Government

Acting Prime Minister Osman Hussein

Displaced Sudanese, who fled the Zamzam camp, gather near the town of Tawila in North Darfur on February 14. Photo: AFP

Africa

Sudan civil war: famine and inflation eclipse Ramadan

The war has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced more than 12 million and cut off crucial supply routes across the country.

1 Mar 2025 - 7:33PM

Africa

Sudan military plane crash death toll rises to 46

27 Feb 2025 - 1:22AMvideocam

Africa

African Union summit opens, overshadowed by DR Congo conflict

15 Feb 2025 - 12:30PM

Africa

Sudan market attack kills 54, wounds more than 150

Casualties in the attack, carried out by the Rapid Support Forces on a market in Omdurman, reportedly included many women and children.

2 Feb 2025 - 3:03PMvideocam

Debris is seen after an attack at Sabrein Market in Omdurman, north of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, on Saturday. Photo: Khartoum State Press Office/Xinhua

China-Africa relations

China’s peace strategy in Horn of Africa is slow-going, but can it reap rewards?

Beijing is taking a slow but safe approach to promoting harmony in a region of Africa beset by war and insurgencies, experts say.

31 Jan 2025 - 6:54AMvideocam

Africa

Sudan’s civil war sets ablaze country’s largest oil refinery

Fighting nearby set the sprawling complex ablaze, satellite data shows, amid famine and Sudan’s worsening humanitarian crisis.

25 Jan 2025 - 4:56PM

Africa

Sudan government rejects UN-backed famine declaration

The war has reportedly created famine conditions for 638,000 people, with a further 8.1 million on the brink of mass starvation.

29 Dec 2024 - 10:50PM

A doctor treats a Sudanese child suffering from malnutrition at an MSF clinic in Metche Camp, Chad, near the Sudanese border, on April 6, 2024. Photo: AP

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.

10 Dec 2024 - 7:37PMvideocam

Diplomacy

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

The credibility of developing countries in the fight against poverty stems from lived experience rather than theoretical discourse.

26 Nov 2024 - 4:31PM

China-Africa relations

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.

16 Nov 2024 - 5:13PMvideocam

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

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.

29 Oct 2024 - 6:18PM

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.

27 Oct 2024 - 9:21PM

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.

26 Oct 2024 - 8:36PM

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.

21 Oct 2024 - 3:03PMvideocam

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.

22 Sep 2024 - 10:24PM

Aid trucks bound for Sudan’s Darfur region, at a location given as the border of Chad and Sudan, August 21, 2024. Photo: UNHCR via Reuters

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.

14 Sep 2024 - 10:30PM

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.

9 Sep 2024 - 10:38AM

Scores killed after dam bursts in Sudan

27 Aug 2024 - 5:25PM

Dam bursts in eastern Sudan, at least 30 dead and many missing

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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.

19 Aug 2024 - 3:54AM

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.

27 Jul 2024 - 11:00PM

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.

25 Apr 2024 - 10:56AMvideocam

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.

24 Apr 2024 - 3:40AMvideocam

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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.

20 Apr 2024 - 8:09AMvideocam

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.

25 Feb 2024 - 12:45PMvideocam

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.

25 Dec 2023 - 4:30PMvideocam

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.

10 Nov 2023 - 8:30PMvideocam

A young girl in a tent set up for Palestinians seeking refuge, in an UNRWA centre in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 19. Entire city blocks have been levelled, water, food and power have been cut off, and over one million people have been displaced. Photo: AFP

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.

18 Sep 2023 - 12:31AMvideocam

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.

17 Sep 2023 - 1:45PMvideocam

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