The Latest Breaking News from Darfur

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.

Both the army-backed government and RSF-backed alliance are increasingly rewarding loyal armed groups on the ground.

The Hague court’s Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan warns civil war ‘has reached an intolerable state’.

The International Criminal Court believes war crimes and crimes against humanity are continuing in Sudan’s vast western Darfur region where civil war has raged for more than two years, the tribunal’s deputy prosecutor says

Mass killings and starvation threaten hundreds of thousands of people trapped in El Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur, as fighting closes in, the charity Doctors Without Borders has warned its latest report.

Sudan was plunged into a war more than two years ago, when tensions between the army and its rival paramilitary RSF exploded with street battles in the capital of Khartoum that quickly spread across the country.