UNHCR calls on countries to keep borders open to Sudanese refugees as numbers grow
CAIRO / N'DJAMENA - May 30, 2023 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, has called on...
Sudan’s fragile ceasefire extended
JEDDAH - May 30, 2023 The warring Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have agreed to extend...
Agar favours IGAD mediation for Sudan peace process
KHARTOUM - May 19, 2023 Malik Agar, newly appointed Deputy Chairman of the Sovereignty Council, stated that Sudan needs a...
El Burhan demands replacement of UN special representative in Sudan
KHARTOUM / NEW YORK - Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, Commander-in-Chief of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and President of...
US/Saudi facilitators: Sudan warring parties must put the needs of the people first
JEDDAH - Saudi Arabia and the USA today issued a statement in which they urge the warring Sudan Armed forces...
Thousands flee to Abyei and Nuba Mountains, Port Sudan ‘overcrowded’
ABYEI / KAUDA / PORT SUDAN – Abyei, a disputed region on the border of Sudan and South Sudan, has...
US/Saudi facilitators urge Sudan’s warring SAF and RSF to uphold humanitarian ceasefire
KHARTOUM / JEDDAH / WASHINGTON – The joint facilitators of the Jeddah Agreement on a short-term seven-day ceasefire and humanitarian...
SA Secretary Blinken: ‘Civilians must define Sudan’s path forward’
WASHINGTON – US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has encouraged the warring Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces...
UNITAMS head: Commanders’ choice to resolve conflict on the battlefield is ravaging Sudan
NEW YORK – The Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in...
Border crossing into Egypt re-opened as Sudan’s Wadi Halfa crowded
WADI HALFA - May 23, 2023 The Egyptian authorities re-opened the Qustul-Ashkeet crossing to vehicles coming from Wadi Halfa yesterday, after...
Sudan-South Sudan border: Five dead in attack on nomads in Abyei
ABYEI – Five people have been killed and six injured, including women and children, in an attack by gunmen on...
War in Sudan: SAF and RSF sign week-long ceasefire ‘to facilitate humanitarian response’
JEDDAH / KHARTOUM – Representatives of the warring Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) signed...
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