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114 killed in week of attacks in Sudan's Darfur
AFP, Published on 04/01/2026
» PORT SUDAN, Sudan - Attacks by Sudan's army and its paramilitary foes on two towns in the western Darfur region over the past week have killed 114 people, medical sources told AFP on Sunday.
The Sudanese who told the world what happened in El-Fasher
AFP, Published on 10/11/2025
» PORT SUDAN (SUDAN) - "Sixteen killed." "Seven killed." "Thirty-one killed." "People are eating cowhide to survive." "The bombs are getting closer." "They're shooting people trying to run away."
No end to Sudan fighting despite progress on truce
AFP, Published on 07/11/2025
» PORT SUDAN - An end to fighting in Sudan still seems far off despite the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, fighting the army for more than two years, endorsing a truce proposal.
‘No one could stop it’: Fleeing Sudanese describe mass rapes
AFP, Published on 05/11/2025
» TAWILA, Sudan - Sudanese mother Amira wakes up every day trembling, haunted by scenes of mass rapes she saw while fleeing the western city of El-Fasher after it was overrun by paramilitaries.
Sudan army-backed council to discuss US truce proposal
AFP, Published on 04/11/2025
» PORT SUDAN - Sudan’s army-backed authorities are preparing to discuss a US proposal for a ceasefire in the war with the paramilitary, a government source told AFP, as the United Nations chief called for an end to the “nightmare of violence”.
Fears for trapped civilians in Sudan's El-Fasher as fighting flares
AFP, Published on 27/10/2025
» PORT SUDAN (SUDAN) - The army-aligned governor of Sudan's Darfur region called for the protection of civilians in the stricken city of El-Fasher on Monday, after paramilitaries claimed to have seized it following a brutal 18-month siege.
Sudan's RSF claims control of last army stronghold in Darfur
AFP, Published on 27/10/2025
» PORT SUDAN (SUDAN) - Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said Sunday it had seized full control of El-Fasher, the last major city in the expansive Darfur region not in its hands, in a potential turning point in the country's unrelenting civil war.
ICC finds Sudan militia chief guilty of crimes against humanity
AFP, Published on 06/10/2025
» THE HAGUE - The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday convicted a feared Sudanese militia chief for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during brutal attacks in Darfur.
In an Irish memorial, I see echoes of Palestine
Oped, Published on 03/10/2025
» The figures by the River Liffey in Dublin are more clothes than flesh. The Famine Memorial, created by Rowan Gillespie, holds in bronze a moment of suffering, the settling in of the Great Hunger, which would cut Ireland's population by more than a quarter, the gone either dead or emigrated.
Sudan landslide kills more than 1,000 in Darfur
AFP, Published on 02/09/2025
» KHARTOUM - The United Nations said on Tuesday it is working to respond to a devastating landslide in the Darfur region of Sudan that buried an entire mountain village, killing as many as 1,000 people.