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July 9, 2026 12:54 PM

UN probe says mass killings, rapes, abductions, starvation by Sudan force amount to genocide

Sudan's RSF forces carried out mass killings, abductions of women and girls, mass gang rapes and forced starvation in a city they besieged and captured last year, as part of an intentional policy amounting to genocide, a U.N. probe said on Wednesday. The Rapid Support Forces, which are battling the Sudanese army in a civil war, committed the crimes in al-Fashir in north Darfur, which they captured last year after a long siege, the U.N. Fact-Finding Mission for Sudan found. Survivors de...

May 24, 2026 9:40 AM

WHO declares Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda a PHEIC; India issues travel advisory

In light of the reported outbreaks of Ebola Disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda, the World Health Organization (WHO), under the International Health Regulations (IHR), 2005, on 17 May 2026, determined the situation to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has also officially declared the ongoing outbreak of Bundibugyo strain Ebola Virus Disease affecting the Democratic Republ...

May 11, 2026 5:21 PM

UN warns drone attacks drive surge in civilian deaths in Sudan

The United Nations human rights chief warned on Monday that widening and intensifying violence in Sudan, as well as the rising use of drones, could lead to more death and displacement. "The international community is on notice that, unless action is taken without delay, this conflict is on the cusp of entering yet another new, even deadlier phase," the high commissioner for the U.N. Human Rights Office, Volker Turk, said in a statement. Turk warned that armed drones have now become the leading...

April 15, 2026 10:07 PM

Why is Sudan at war, and what is the impact?

The war in Sudan entered its fourth year on April 15 overshadowed by other regional and global turmoil, despite having created what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian crisis. WHO IS FIGHTING? The war pits the Sudanese army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, against the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group led by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo. The two men had joined forces in 2019 to overthrow veteran autocrat Omar al-Bashir, after which Burhan became head of st...

April 15, 2026 7:27 PM

Germany seeks $1 billion in aid for Sudan to ease hunger crisis

Germany pledged a further 20 million euros ($23.6 million) to Sudan this year, the development ministry said on Wednesday, ahead of an international aid conference hosted in Berlin that is aiming to gather more than $1 billion in funding commitments. The brutal war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which enters its third year on Wednesday, has created what aid groups say is now the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Millions of people have been forced to f...

February 19, 2026 2:38 PM

RSF actions in Sudan’s al-Fashir points to genocide, UN probe says

Mass killings of non‑Arab communities when the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group captured the Sudanese city of al‑Fashir bears hallmarks that point to genocide, an independent UN probe said in a new report on Thursday. At the end of October last year, the RSF took over the city - which had been the last remaining stronghold of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the Darfur region in the west of the country - with thousands of people killed and raped during three days of horror, the UN ...

February 18, 2026 10:42 PM

UN human rights chief raises alarm after drone strikes kill more than 50 civilians in Sudan

The United Nations human rights chief expressed alarm on Wednesday following reports of more than 50 civilians being killed in drone strikes in Sudan in two days in the last week. At least 57 civilians were killed between Sunday and Monday, including at least 15 children, in separate drone attacks in four states across Sudan, according to the U.N. U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk said the killings were a reminder of the devastating consequences of drone warfare in Sudan, with civilians and ...

January 23, 2026 3:59 PM

Half of all Sudanese children not in education due to civil war, says aid group

Around half of all school-age children in Sudan, or more than eight million, are no longer in education because of the country's civil war, in one of the world's worst education crises, Save The Children said in a report on Thursday. "Right now the international community is failing the children of Sudan," Inger Ashing, the CEO of Save the Children International, one of the largest charities operating in the country, told reporters in a video-link briefing from Stockholm. The report said more ...

November 14, 2025 10:00 AM

UN agency says 13.7 million people face severe hunger due to global aid cuts

Almost 14 million people in Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan risk severe hunger due to cuts in global humanitarian aid, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Wednesday. The WFP's biggest donor, the United States, has slashed its foreign aid under President Donald Trump, and other major nations have also made or announced cuts in development and humanitarian assistance. "WFP's funding has never been more challenged. The agency ex...

October 23, 2025 9:32 PM

Thousands of children at risk of death in Sudan’s besieged al-Fashir, UN says

Thousands of children are facing an imminent risk of death as malnutrition rates skyrocket in the besieged city of al-Fashir in Sudan's Darfur region, four United Nations agencies said on Thursday. More than a quarter of a million civilians, about half of them children, have been cut off from food and healthcare in the city during a 16-month-old standoff, the agencies said. "Health facilities have collapsed, and thousands of children suffering from severe acute malnutrition are now without tre...