Sudan: Mass Atrocities in Captured Darfur City

(Nairobi) – Dozens of videos posted on social media in recent days show Rapid Support Forces (RSF) carrying out extrajudicial killings and other serious violations against people fleeing North Darfur’s capital, El Fasher, Human Rights Watch said...

Sudan: Growing concern about atrocities committed in Darfur capital

There is growing international concern as more reports emerge of atrocities committed against non-Arab ethnic groups in al-Fashir, the capital of Sudan’s Darfur region. The city was captured by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Sunday...

Paul Vallely: Trump is the best hope Sudan has got

THE media can manage only one big story at a time. Something is always more important than the war in Sudan — despite the fact that it is the world’s largest refugee emergency. One charity even called it the worst humanitarian crisis ever...

Sudanese migrant with 'mature skin and set lines' wins £40k battle with council after they wrongly judged him to be 30 when he was only 17

A Sudanese migrant has won a £40,000 battle with the council after British authorities wrongly judged him to be 30 when he was only 17. Age assessment workers at Luton Borough Council refused to believe the migrant was a teenager when he arrived...

'We saw people murdered in front of us' - Sudan siege survivors speak to the BBC

Barbara Plett UsherAfrica correspondent ShareSave Ezzeldin Hassan Musa was beaten with sticks before he managed to flee Shaken, scratched and left with just the clothes he is wearing, Ezzeldin Hassan Musa describes the brutality of Sudan's Rapid...

US politicians call for Trump to act on 'unspeakable atrocities' in Sudan

Republican and Democratic US senators are calling for a strong response from President Donald Trump's administration after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces seized new territory in Sudan, reportedly attacking civilians. The growing calls came...

10 new Israeli airstrikes on Khan Younis; Trump agrees to one-year trade truce with Xi; Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces execute at least 460 people inside a hospital

Israel continues to violate the Gaza ceasefire, bombing Khan Younis and Beit Lahia. Qatar’s Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani suggests Hamas breached the ceasefire with an attack in Rafah that killed an Israeli soldier. Hamas says...

The Beauty Beneath the Rubble: Stories They Don’t Want Us to Know

I hate having to admit that I am one of those ignorant Americans. I didn’t get a great education in geography, and I didn’t learn much about world history until college. I haven’t had the opportunity to do much traveling, so sometimes, my only...

UN Demands End to Sudan Siege, Killings

The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urgently called for an immediate end to military hostilities in Sudan on Thursday, following alarming reports that paramilitary forces shot dead over 460 patients and companions at a...

'Dead bodies in the streets': Survivors describe fleeing Sudan's El-Fasher

Families hid in trenches, bodies lay in the streets and children were killed in front of their parents as Sudanese paramilitaries advanced into the western city of El-Fasher, survivors told AFP. More than 36,000 civilians have fled the city since...

El-Fasher's Fall to RSF Risks New Sudan Split, Warn Analysts

A sense of optimism is growing within Lebanon’s security establishment that 2026 could mark the end of the country’s “drug world,” a shadow economy born out of the Lebanese civil war and fueled by the conflicts that followed. Those wars created an...

Thousands of Sudanese flee RSF-controlled El-Fasher as Darfur towns buckle under 1 million displaced

ISTANBUL Over 1 million displaced people have arrived in two North Darfur towns in western Sudan since the start of a conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army in April 2023, as thousands more attempt to...

Canada warns travelers of rising dengue cases in Philippines

October 30, 2025 | 11:47am MANILA, Philippines — The Government of Canada has advised its citizens traveling to the Philippines to exercise a “high degree of caution” following rising cases of dengue fever. In a health notice issued on October 27,...

Full statement by Intersociety on fact-check enquiries by BBC-Africa

Politics THE Int’l Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (InterSociety) has published its full statement on the inquiries by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) on religious persecution claims in. Nigerian. The Intersociety made its...

Israel kills over 100 Palestinians in overnight bombardment of Gaza; thousands killed in Sudan's El-Fasher

Israel kills over 100 Palestinians, including more than 45 children, in heavy overnight bombardment of Gaza. President Trump defends Israel’s attacks, while saying “Nothing is going to jeopardize” the ceasefire. Israeli forces arrest dozens in...

Sudanese in Jordan… at the Mercy of Legal Restrictions and Labor Exploitation

In a cramped apartment in the Jabal Al-Akhdar area of Amman, Sudanese refugee Amina (27) lives with her two children—one under one year old and the other five—under harsh conditions without electricity for six months, facing the threat of...

Paramilitary Takeover of Al-Fashir Triggers Mass Displacement in Sudan

(FILE) Sudanese soldiers patrolling North Darfur. Photo: EFE. October 29, 2025 Hour: 5:40 am More than 33,000 people have fled Al-Fashir, in western Sudan, since the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the city last Sunday. Al-Fashir...

Opinion: Refuting what Trump said at UN

The 80th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations began on Sept. 9. The session has been renewed every year since 1945, but generally, the most interesting part of each annual session is the opening general debate that includes a...

Sudan's fertile region where food is rotting

At the market in Nertiti vendors are having trouble selling the oranges/Screengrab There is a place in Sudan where it is almost possible to forget that a devastating civil war is going on. Wrapped in bright colours and wearing plastic sandals,...

CDE admissions cycle uncertain amid Trump travel restrictions

Janine Wang/The Williams Record As new policies from the Trump administration sharply restrict student visas to the United States, the Center for Development Economics (CDE) faces new limitations on who may attend the one-year master’s degree...