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War-stricken Sudan is in danger of becoming another failed state because civil society is disintegrating amid a proliferation of armed groups, the head of a leading international aid agency has told the BBC. As well as the two main warring parties in Sudan – the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces – there are […]
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s SitRep, where we also had to Google “Who is Pete Hegseth?” Alright, here’s what’s on tap for the day: A Trump enforcer heads to the Defense Department, the president-elect reportedly asks Putin not to escalate in Ukraine, and the death toll in Sudan’s civil war may be even worse than […]
A Canadian Security Intelligence Service official has denied threatening a Montreal man who was later imprisoned and allegedly tortured by authorities in Sudan. The spy service employee, who can only be identified as Witness C to protect their identity, testified Wednesday in Abousfian Abdelrazik’s lawsuit against the federal government. Abdelrazik claims Canadian […]
06-11-2024 07:00 The war in Sudan lasts 18 months already. And it is hard for artists. Many musicians and performers must stop working or leave their homes. In the capital city, music rooms and theaters are empty and damaged. A musician named Mohammed Omar says that his music room looks very different now. But some […]
Ahmed Othman’s farm has been spared from the deadly fighting that has spread across Sudan, but the war’s toll on the economy and labour market has still reached him. “I had to sell two vehicles” to afford to harvest this season’s crops, he told AFP from his large sesame farm in eastern Sudan’s Gedaref state. […]
Wie schreibt man immer wieder über einen Krieg, der nicht aufhört – und immer brutaler wird? Versuchen wir es mit Fußball. Mit 2:0 hat die Nationalmannschaft des Sudan ihr jüngstes Länderspiel am 15. Oktober gewonnen. Gegen das hochfavorisierte Ghana trafen Ahmed Al Tash in der 63. und Mohamed Abdelrahman in der 65. Minute. Damit fehlen […]
CAIRO: Fighters from the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ran riot in east-central Sudan in a multi-day attack that killed more than 120 people in one town, a doctors group and the United Nations said. It was the group’s latest attack against the Sudanese military after suffering a series of setbacks, losing ground to the […]
Russia’s embassy in Sudan has said it is investigating reports that a cargo plane with Russian crew was shot down in Darfur, a key battle ground in the civil war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The aircraft, identified as a Russian-made lyushin Il-76, was on a mission to deliver equipment […]