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April 26, 2023 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese army announced its initial acceptance of an initiative from the IGAD regional bloc aimed at stopping the fighting in Sudan and holding negotiations in Juba with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Al-Burhan meeting with IGAD Executive Secretary on January 31, 2022 A statement issued by the Sudan […]

South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol and President Joe Biden announced enhanced nuclear cooperation between the U.S. and South Korea amid North Korean threats. U.S. President Joe Biden (R) with South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (L) at an arrival ceremony during a state visit with on the South Lawn of the White House in […]

Moscow’s forces are digging in furiously in the south of Ukraine, as they prepare to defeat Kyiv’s upcoming offensive, but that won’t be easy and it might not work. Ukrainian T64 tanks move towards Bakhmut direction, in Donetsk Oblast region, on March 20. PHOTO: AFP The Russian army has shifted over to a full defensive stance which […]

April 25, 2023 (KHARTOUM) – UN special envoy to Sudan sounded an alarm bell of the negative impact of the fighting in Khartoum on the rest of the country, citing the resumption of tribal clashes in West Darfur as one area of concern. A picture released by activist on 25 November showing a village burning […]

People prepare to board a bus departing from Khartoum in the Sudanese capital’s south on April 24, 2023, as battles rage in the city between the army and paramilitaries. (Photo by AFP) After 10 days of intense urban combat that saw hundreds of casualties and a mass exodus of foreigners, a 72-hour cease-fire brokered by […]

April 24, 2023 (KHARTOUM) – A member of the Egyptian embassy in Khartoum was killed while he was heading to his office on Monday evening, said the Sudanese army. Mohamed al-Gharawy The Sudan Armed Forces accused the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of killing the assistant administrative attaché at the Egyptian embassy in Khartoum. In […]

Days after armed fighting erupted in Sudan, Dalia Mohamed and her mother were faced with an impossible choice: flee the capital of Khartoum or stay. With their house located in the heart of a civil war, the constant sounds of bullets, rockets and shelling soon became too much to bear. On Thursday, they packed a […]

Two months after Ukraine’s defense of Bakhmut seemed doomed, the bloodiest battle of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine is still going against all expectations. A Ukrainian soldier looks out of a rooftop window in the direction of Bakhmut, Donetsk Oblast, on April 11, 2023. (Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Making rapid advances at […]

Intense battles leave staff and patients trapped in hospitals for days as doctors try to treat an influx of wounded despite depleting resources. A ward at a hospital in el-Fasher in North Darfur is crowded with people wounded in more than a week of fighting between Sudan’s army and the RSF paramilitary [File: Ali Shukur/MSF/AFP] […]