The Latest Breaking News from Darfur

The United Nations says a drone attack on a U.N. convoy set fire to all 16 trucks carrying desperately needed food to Sudan’s famine-hit North Darfur region and destroyed all the vehicles

The top U.N. human rights body has accused both the Sudanese Armed Forces and Darfur’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of detaining tens of thousands of people without charge since Sudan’s war broke out in 2023

Local rights groups say Sudan's Rapid Support Forces have attacked a displacement camp outside el-Fasher, killing 40 people

Months after famine was declared in nearby displacement camps, the besieged Sudanese city of El-Fasher is now seeing starvation deaths of its own, with no food aid entering and the UN’s World Food Programme warning of worsening conditions for the 300,000 people still trapped inside.

President Gustavo Petro says his government is trying to find out how many Colombians died in the attack.

Sudan's air force has destroyed an Emirati aircraft carrying Colombian mercenaries as it landed at a paramilitary-controlled airport in Darfur, killing at least 40 people, the army-aligned state TV said Wednesday.

A siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has caused a famine in North Darfur’s capital el-Fasher.

North Darfur’s capital has been under RSF siege for more than a year with key roads blocked and supplies running out.

Sudan’s south-western city of Nyala in Darfur recently became the centre of a significant political development.