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Ground clashes erupted on Saturday after the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) launched a large-scale offensive to connect two key cities under its control in Kordofan.
A risk of famine continues across much of Darfur and Kordofan despite recent aid deliveries to the worst-affected areas, according to monitors.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is receiving assistance at an Ethiopian military base and staging attacks into Sudan from Ethiopian territory, evidence suggests.
Hundreds of people have fled their homes as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) prepares its latest attack on Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) territory along the Ethiopian border, according to reports.
More than 2,000 people have been killed in attacks on healthcare facilities in the three years of war in Sudan, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said.
A key logistics hub in central Sudan has been recaptured by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after offensives targeting remaining Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) strongholds in Kordofan and Darfur.
Thousands of people in Sudan's Blue Nile have been forced to flee their homes, farms have suffered crop loss, and the healthcare system has collapsed following the spread of fighting to the state.
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have entered the South Kordofan city of Dilling, breaking a long-running siege that has brought a suspected famine to the civilian population.
Civilians fleeing the besieged city of Kadugli risk being extorted, ethnically targeted, and killed, according to one who has escaped the city, while those still trapped face hunger, soaring prices, and a critical lack of medical supplies.
Scores of people have been killed in a series of drone strikes across Sudan as the UN warns of “new waves of displacement” caused by the latest escalation of violence.
Violent clashes continued to escalate this week in Bahri, forcing approximately 2,000 people to take refuge in schools and streets in the Al-Samrab neighborhood
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is conducting a “systematic multi-week campaign” to destroy evidence of killings carried out after it took the city of El Fasher, satellite images suggest.
Civilians are being prevented from fleeing major cities in Kordofan by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) despite the risk of escalating attacks by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to reports.
At least nine people, including four children, have reportedly been killed in a set of drone strikes in South Kordofan as fighting escalates across the Kordofan region.
Survivors of the ongoing massacres in El Fasher told of the horrors they experienced as the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took full control of the North Darfur capital.
The UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have shut down one of the last remaining escape routes out of El-Fasher, and appear to be burning bodies at several sites across the city, according to a new report.
Freshly dug mass graves have been discovered in the North Darfur capital of El Fasher, where tens of thousands of civilians have been slaughtered over the past 10 days.
Survivors of the ongoing massacres in El Fasher told of the horrors they experienced as the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took full control of the North Darfur capital.
Patients have been executed on hospital wards and medics have been kidnapped following the fall of El Fasher to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), activist groups have said.
Massacres are ongoing in El Fasher following the fall of the city to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), despite public assurances by the group’s leadership that civilians would be protected, satellite images suggest.
The RSF yesterday captured SAF’s final military base in Darfur, further cementing their control over El Fasher, the North Darfur capital which the RSF has besieged for over sixteen months.
Shelters housing scores of displaced civilians in El Fasher are being repeatedly targeted in strikes by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), satellite images suggest.
Scores of civilians have been killed in Nyala, Sudan's second biggest city, following weeks of airstrikes and barrel bomb attacks by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), the country's de-facto rulers.
The largest displacement camp in besieged El Fasher is almost completely empty of civilians after being attacked and taken over by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Avaaz has been told.
Thousands of civilians have been forced to flee El Fasher's largest displacement camp after it was attacked and taken over by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
Survivors of the ongoing massacres in El Fasher told of the horrors they experienced as the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took full control of the North Darfur capital.
Dozens of civilians are reported to have been killed in a strike on a mosque in El Fasher as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) launches a “large-scale” attack to try to take the city.
The largest remaining displacement camp in El Fasher has suffered “mass bombardment” and a significant increase in the number of people being killed over recent weeks, satellite images suggest.
People caught trying to smuggle food into the besieged city of El Fasher are being “executed on sight” by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to one civilian.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is building an earthen wall around El Fasher to create a “kill box” and prevent civilians fleeing the besieged city, satellite imagery suggests.
At least nine civilians have been killed in Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shelling of a displacement camp as the group seeks to take control of the city of El Fasher following a siege that has lasted more than a year.
Life in the besieged city of Kadugli has become “unbearable“, a local aid worker has said, with hunger widespread and clinics facing lethal shortages of medical supplies.
Civilians have been extorted and killed after being told to flee the besieged city of El Fasher, where hundreds of thousands remain trapped and facing starvation.
One of the largest areas of displacement in Darfur is facing an “alarming” outbreak of cholera, aid groups have warned, with fears cases will continue to rise as the rainy season sets in.
A Sudanese village was left “razed and smouldering” after a massacre by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in which hundreds of civilians were killed, new satellite imagery shows.
Thousands of villagers are being displaced as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targets a key city in North Kordofan, with one describing the group “terrorising” civilians and killing them if they try to resist.
A strike on a West Kordofan hospital that killed dozens of people came amid an already “disastrous” situation for medical care in the area, a local health worker has said.
Civilians displaced by the war in Sudan have described finding their houses looted and without power, while the number of returnees continues to rise.
Aid workers in besieged El Fasher have described a disastrous humanitarian situation unfolding in the city, with food running out and civilians facing daily bombardment by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Civilians living under Rapid Support Forces (RSF) control have described a government built on violence and intimidation as well as a collapsing healthcare system, skyrocketing prices, and severe shortages of food, medicine, and fuel.
Port Sudan saw a sixth round of strikes on Friday as drones continue to extend the reach of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and bring the war to areas previously safe for civilians.
Over 100 civilians have been executed after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacked a key city in West Kordofan in the early hours of Thursday morning, according to reports.
Children are dying of thirst in desperate conditions after being forced to flee their homes, their families looted as they tried to reach safety amid brutal violence in North Darfur.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has doubled its presence in and around Zamzam camp amid ongoing atrocities at the site and ahead of an expected assault on El Fasher, satellite imagery suggests. The group took the camp, the largest for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Sudan, on Sunday following days of ground-assaults.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are going door-to-door hunting community leaders and their families after gaining control of the Zamzam displacement camp, one of those being targeted has told Avaaz.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is positioning its troops in preparation for an all-out ground assault on the city of El Fasher, satellite imagery suggests.
The UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is rounding up and executing children in Zamzam, Sudan’s largest displacement camp, with satellite images suggesting they intend to raze it to the ground.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) executed nine aid workers from the INGO Relief International (RI) in a brutal ground assault on Zamzam, Sudan’s largest camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Civilians and local aid workers have been targeted in a wave of reprisal killings by the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) since recapturing Khartoum from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have retaken the Presidential Palace from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) following days of clashes in central Khartoum
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) appears to be close to recapturing the presidential palace in central Khartoum from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) following intense clashes overnight.
Sudan’s largest refugee camp will be “turned to ashes”, soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have vowed, amid a weeks-long siege that local aid workers say has already created “catastrophic” conditions.
Conditions for millions of civilians in North Darfur have become catastrophic, and now humanitarians in Sudan are grappling with the abrupt cut in US funds which have crippled numerous life-saving aid operations.
In 2024, the United States was the largest single donor, providing over $803 million, or 45% of funds to the United Nation’s Sudan Humanitarian Response Plan.
The examinations faced their first delay since Sudan's independence when war broke out in April 2023, disrupting the original schedule that would have seen 513,000 students taking the exams in June 2023.
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) recaptured Sinjah, the capital of Sennar State in Sudan's agricultural heartland, last Saturday, raising hopes for thousands of civilians who fled brutal RSF attacks to return home.
Reports from sources on the ground indicate that the final battle for El Fasher has seemingly begun.
Over half a million displaced people in the Zamzam camp are at imminent risk of mass atrocities, warns Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP), as Rapid Support Forces (RSF) prepare to capture El Fasher city within weeks.
ONE HUNDRED civilians are dying from starvation each day, the UK revealed at the UN Security Council this week.
The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) made sweeping advances across Sudan in the past two weeks
Over 600 Sudanese civilian political and civil society leaders met this week in Addis Ababa, for a 'historic' conference to launch a united anti-war coalition.
Trapped civilians say that “El Fasher will perish” as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) conduct ethnic cleansing in IDP camps
Famine is imminent in hardest hit conflict areas, including heavily populated regions of Greater Darfur and Khartoum, warns the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWSNET)
Biden Administration discussing deployment of peacekeepers as situation continues to deteriorate
Dozens of towns have been massacred. Thousands have been slaughtered as attackers go door to door, families murdered, bodies rotting, and mass graves appearing on satellite imagery.
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