They were the dictator's fighting dogs in Darfur – and became a large shadow army that wants to take over the entire country. The paramilitary RSF forces are fighting the army in an ethnically torn Sudan, with large foreign support. Immense resources in gold, cattle and other things are at stake, says Sudan expert Johan Brosché.
ConflictsThey were the dictator's fighting dogs in Darfur – and became a large shadow army that wants to take over the entire country. The paramilitary RSF forces are fighting the army in an ethnically torn Sudan, with large foreign support. Immense resources in gold, cattle and other things are at stake, says Sudan expert Johan Brosché.
ConflictsExecutions, sexual violence, looting, kidnappings and attacks on aid workers. The crisis in Sudan is spiraling out of control, warns UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
WorldDrones have hit the airport and knocked out the power in the important port city of Port Sudan on the Red Sea. It is the third day in a row that the seat of the war-torn Sudan's army-backed government is being attacked.
WorldMore than 30 people were killed when paramilitary forces launched a new attack on one of the larger cities in Darfur, alarm activist groups working in Sudan's raging civil war.
WorldHundreds of thousands of people fleeing a raging war end up in perhaps the world's poorest country. Many of them have previously moved in the opposite direction. And soon there will be no help to get. That's what we're seeing now – people are dying, says Joel Andersson, who works for UNHCR in South Sudan.
WorldSmall earth mounds rise along the razed streets. What was once a football pitch is now a graveyard. Thousands of people were killed during the nearly two years when the war raged in Sudan's capital Khartum. Few of them have received dignified burials.
WorldSudan's capital Khartum has been taken over by army forces, the opposition admits.
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