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Sudan

The latest news, analysis and opinion on Sudan. In-depth analysis, industry insights and expert opinion.

Capital

Khartoum

Head of State

General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan

Head of Government

Acting Prime Minister Osman Hussein

last updated:

5 December, 2024

Sudan’s top army general and de facto ruler, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. Photo: AFP

Africa

Sudan’s civil war sets ablaze country’s largest oil refinery

Fighting nearby set the sprawling complex ablaze, satellite data shows, amid famine and Sudan’s worsening humanitarian crisis.

25 Jan 2025 - 4:56PM

Africa

Sudan government rejects UN-backed famine declaration

29 Dec 2024 - 10:50PM

Africa

‘Horrendous massacre’: over 100 killed in Sudanese air strike on Darfur market

10 Dec 2024 - 7:37PMvideocam

Diplomacy

Opinion | Can Global South and G20 lead new era of poverty reduction?

The credibility of developing countries in the fight against poverty stems from lived experience rather than theoretical discourse.

26 Nov 2024 - 4:31PM

Children sit in a camp in Gedaref, Sudan, for people displaced due to fighting in Sinja, on July 24. Photo: EPA-EFE

China-Africa relations

Why Chinese investors are also waiting for Sudan’s civil war to end

Prolonged fighting in Sudan is keeping Chinese companies out but plans are in place to go back in once the violence ends.

16 Nov 2024 - 5:13PMvideocam

Africa

Sudan sees sexual violence on ‘staggering’ scale amid civil war: UN

Children are not spared the abuse, while women and girls are being abducted for sexual slavery.

29 Oct 2024 - 6:18PM

Africa

Paramilitary rampage kills more than 120 in east-central Sudan

UN and doctors groups say the Rapid Support Forces ran riot in a multi-day attack in the province of Gezira, from October 20 to 25.

27 Oct 2024 - 9:21PM

Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces in 2019. Photo: AP

Africa

Sudan paramilitary attack kills 50, activists say

The attack comes after a defection by a commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to Sudan’s regular army.

26 Oct 2024 - 8:36PM

China-Africa relations

Ethiopian dam could muddy the waters of China’s position as a global leader

A long-running dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam could force Beijing into an impossible situation, observers say.

21 Oct 2024 - 3:03PMvideocam

Africa

‘Barely anyone left’ as Sudan’s El Fasher devastated by fighting

Sudan’s 17-month civil war has claimed tens of thousands of lives and caused the world’s largest displacement crisis.

22 Sep 2024 - 10:24PM

Aid trucks bound for Sudan’s Darfur region, at a location given as the border of Chad and Sudan, August 21, 2024. Photo: UNHCR via Reuters

Africa

UN analysts report ‘unprecedented’ combat in Sudan amid famine, displacement

The foreign ministry of Sudan rejected appeals by UN experts to deploy an ‘impartial force’ for civilian protection.

14 Sep 2024 - 10:30PM

A World Food Programme truck backs up to load food items from a recently landed UN helicopter, in Yida camp, South Sudan, on Saturday. Photo: AP

Africa

Market shelling kills 21 after Sudan rejects UN call for ‘impartial’ force to protect civilians

Dozens more were injured in Sunday’s attack, which was blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

9 Sep 2024 - 10:38AM

Scores killed after dam bursts in Sudan

27 Aug 2024 - 5:25PM

United Nations

Cholera outbreak kills at least 22 people in Sudan, health minister says

Highly contagious cholera causes diarrhoea, leading to dehydration and possible death within hours when not treated, according to the WHO.

19 Aug 2024 - 3:54AM

A child suffering from cholera receives treatment at a rural isolation centre in Wad Al-Hilu, Kassala state, eastern Sudan on Sunday. Photo: AFP

Africa

Activists say 22 killed in RSF attacks, the first after weeks of stalemate

The al-Fashir Resistance Committees said that the RSF had fired artillery shells on markets, hospitals and residential apartments.

27 Jul 2024 - 11:00PM

People sit near their tents at a camp for displaced people in Sinja town, eastern Sudan, on Wednesday. The civil war in Sudan is the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with an estimated 10 million internally displaced people. Photo: EPA-EFE

Middle East

Opinion | Why can’t US and China jointly seek Middle East peace and still compete?

Although they support rival camps and pursue divergent geopolitical games, the US and China are also working for the same thing: the region’s security and stability.

25 Apr 2024 - 10:56AMvideocam

US-China relations

Blinken highlights China’s Uygurs as ‘genocide’ victims at US report launch

America’s top diplomat pledges to keep raising atrocities with responsible governments days before he is expected to meet senior officials in Beijing.

24 Apr 2024 - 3:40AMvideocam

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Israel-Gaza war

Outside In | As governments boost defence spending, the needy are being robbed

With so many nations struggling to provide electricity and clean water, and to rebuild healthcare and education, it’s a travesty that billions of dollars are being diverted to arms production and defence.

20 Apr 2024 - 8:09AMvideocam

Israel’s anti-missile system responds to Iran’s drones and missiles on April 14. The cost of the 200-300 Iranian projectiles and the estimated US$50,000 price of each of the hundreds of Tamir interceptor missiles deployed add up to a multimillion-dollar bill for just one night. Photo: Reuters

Africa

Economy another victim of war in impoverished Sudan

The war has led industries to cease production, while businesses and food stocks have been looted.

25 Feb 2024 - 12:45PMvideocam

Israel-Gaza war

Opinion | After a hot 2023 – from wars to the weather – may 2024 be cooler

It has been a hot year in too many ways, with temperatures rising and wars unfolding, and a good deal of hypocrisy in evidence.

25 Dec 2023 - 4:30PMvideocam

War and conflict

Outside In | Israel-Gaza war is just one example of how conflict is the biggest driver of world hunger

Almost all of the world’s worst food crises are the products of or worsened by war – from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan and Somalia, to Syria, Yemen and now, Gaza.

10 Nov 2023 - 8:30PMvideocam

A young girl in a tent set up for Palestinians seeking refuge, in an UNRWA centre in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 19. Entire city blocks have been levelled, water, food and power have been cut off, and over one million people have been displaced. Photo: AFP

Africa

Sudan’s capital in flames as war rages across the country

Footage on social media shows Khartoum’s buildings burning and smouldering with windows blown out and walls charred or pockmarked with bullets. Thousands have died and millions have been displaced since war erupted on April 15.

18 Sep 2023 - 12:31AMvideocam

A fire raging at the Greater Nile Petroleum Oil Company Tower in Khartoum. Photo: AFP

Africa

Desperate Sudanese face endless wait for passports so they can flee

Hundreds of people have lined up daily outside a new passport office in Port Sudan since it was inaugurated in late August.

17 Sep 2023 - 1:45PMvideocam

Africa

Air raid kills 46 in one of Sudan war’s worst attacks: activists

The attack in Khartoum came about a week after another air strike, also in Khartoum, killed 20 civilians, according to activists.

11 Sep 2023 - 8:50AM

Africa

Fears of new civil war as fighting flares in South Darfur

Darfur and Sudan’s capital Khartoum have borne the brunt of 4 months of fighting between the army and the paramilitary, led by rival generals vying for power.

13 Aug 2023 - 11:35PMvideocam

Sudanese people fleeing the conflict in the Darfur region. Photo: Photo

Africa

More than 1 million may flee Sudan bloodshed: UN

Refugee agency said estimates of a million people fleeing by October ‘may be conservative’; crisis has ‘potential to destabilise entire region and beyond, as much as Ukraine does in Europe’.

30 May 2023 - 12:44AMvideocam

Women carrying belongings walk down a street in Omdurman, a city in war-torn Sudan, on Monday, the day a one-week ceasefire aiming to allow humanitarian aid for civilians is due to expire. Photo: AFP

Africa

Sudan becomes battleground for foreign fighters

Sudan has long sent mercenaries abroad, but now the country itself has become a battleground for foreign fighters and shadowy military backers lured by money and gold, experts say.

15 May 2023 - 12:59PM

War and conflict

Blasts rock Khartoum as Sudan’s warring sides affirm pledge

Envoys are have been in the Saudi city of Jeddah for a week for talks intended ‘to protect Sudan from any escalation’ as brutal urban warfare continues to batter the densely populated capital.

13 May 2023 - 10:20PMvideocam

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