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Drone strikes rock Port Sudan in third day of attacks
AFP, Published on 06/05/2025
» PORT SUDAN — Drones struck the airport and targeted an army base in Port Sudan on Tuesday, officials said, the third straight day the Sudanese army-aligned government's seat of power has come under attack.
Sudan's war and the Africa we don't see
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 19/04/2025
» Last Tuesday, British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: "Many have given up on Sudan, but that is wrong. It's morally wrong when we see so many civilians beheaded, infants as young as one subjected to sexual violence, more people facing famine than anywhere else in the world.... We simply cannot look away."
'War has taken everything': AFP reporter returns home to Khartoum
AFP, Published on 18/04/2025
» KHARTOUM — It had been nearly two years since Agence France-Presse (AFP) journalist Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali set foot in his home in war-torn Khartoum, after the sound of children playing in the street gave way to the fearsome fire of machine guns.
13 million displaced as Sudan war enters third year: UN
AFP, Published on 15/04/2025
» PORT SUDAN (SUDAN) - Sudan's civil war has displaced 13 million people, the United Nations reported Monday, as the conflict between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces enters a third year.
Sudan army chief says war will not end until RSF lays down its arms
AFP, Published on 30/03/2025
» PORT SUDAN - Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan vowed Saturday that his troops will fight on until the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) lays down its weapons.
Sudan paramilitaries vow 'no surrender' after Khartoum setback
AFP, Published on 28/03/2025
» KHARTOUM - Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces vowed on Thursday there would be "no retreat and no surrender" after rival troops of the regular army retook nearly all of central Khartoum.
Sudan's booming wartime gold trade flows through the UAE
AFP, Published on 27/03/2025
» PORT SUDAN (SUDAN) - Sudan's gold industry has become the lifeblood of its war, with nearly all of the trade channelled through the United Arab Emirates, enriching both the army and paramilitaries, according to official and NGO sources.
Sudan army retakes presidential palace from RSF
AFP, Published on 21/03/2025
» KHARTOUM — Sudan's army said it recaptured the presidential palace in the capital Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on Friday after a fierce battle.
How a key ingredient in Coca-Cola is smuggled out of Sudan
Business, Published on 05/03/2025
» LONDON/DUBAI - Gum arabic, a vital ingredient used in everything from Coca-Cola to M&M's candy, is increasingly being trafficked from rebel-held areas of war-torn Sudan, traders and industry sources say, complicating Western companies' efforts to insulate their supply chains from the conflict.
Sudan army chief visits HQ after recapture from paramilitaries
AFP, Published on 26/01/2025
» PORT SUDAN (SUDAN) - Sudan's army chief visited on Sunday his headquarters in the capital Khartoum, two days after forces recaptured the complex, which paramilitaries had encircled since the war erupted in April 2023.