Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide Exclusive: Analyst claims UK officials deleted alert to threat of genocidal violence by paramilitaries to protect UAE The Guardian - UK · Dec 3, 2025
Call for sanctions amid claims of ethnic cleansing in Sudan's West Darfur Militias in Sudan killed thousands of people – including children – during a wave of violence last year in West Darfur, the NGO Human Rights Watch said as it accused armed groups of crimes against humanity and genocide. Radio France Internationale · May 9, 2024
Children ‘piled up and shot’: new details emerge of ethnic cleansing in Darfur As El Fasher stands on the ‘precipice of a massacre’, rights groups call for sanctions after new testimony describes atrocities carried out by RSF paramilitaries in Sudan The Guardian - UK · May 9, 2024
‘They told us – you are slaves’: survivors give harrowing testimony of Darfur’s year of hell With the war in Sudan poised to escalate and the humanitarian crisis growing, traumatised survivors of a blood-drenched summer in West Darfur tell of their ordeal The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2023
Rape, murder, looting: massacre in Ardamata is the latest chapter in Darfur’s horror story Witnesses recall November’s atrocity as the long-running ethnic conflict in Sudan claims more victims The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2023
Calls for UK to act over violence tearing Sudan apart as mass grave found in Darfur: ‘We are doing nothing’ Those who have made it out of West Darfur alive have described it as ‘running from hell’, writes Tara Cobham, as Britain is urged not to sit on its hands over the ethnic killings being compared to the genocide of 20 years ago The Independent UK · Jul 14, 2023
Calls for sanctions against Sudan amid genocide warnings in Darfur British MPs have been warned of ‘systematic ethnic cleansing’ at the hands of paramilitary forces The Guardian - UK · Jun 30, 2023
Fighting surges in Khartoum as Sudan war enters 11th week Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces says it seized headquarters of heavily armed police unit in southern Khartoum. Al Jazeera · Jun 25, 2023
Sudanese civilians killed trying to flee Darfur city Witnesses say Sudanese civilians attempting to flee by foot to Chad to escape militia attacks on a city in Darfur are being killed or shot. The New Daily · Jun 20, 2023
Sudan war uproots 2.5 million, UN says, as bodies line Darfur streets KHARTOUM - Bodies have lined the streets in Sudan's western Darfur region as the UN said Tuesday that more than two months of fighting have forced over 2.5 million people from their homes. Bangkok Post · Jun 20, 2023
Sudan: paramilitary forces blamed for assassination of West Darfur governor Khamis Abdallah Abbakar was murdered hours after criticising Rapid Support Forces on television The Guardian - UK · Jun 15, 2023
Sudan's fighting risks reigniting war in Darfur, a site of atrocities 20 years ago As fighting in Sudan's capital continues to rage, experts say it's spilling over into the Darfur region and risks fully reigniting a conflict from the early 2000s that left hundreds of thousands dead. WEKU · Jun 10, 2023
Sudan war spells more disaster for Darfur city on Chad border When war engulfed Sudan's capital last month, it quickly spread to the western Darfur region, reigniting an old conflict and sending a wave of refugees over the border into Chad. Reuters · May 26, 2023
Mass exodus from Sudan as deadly fighting enters third week Hundreds of thousands of Sudanese have fled Khartoum and the Darfur region to seek refuge in neighbouring countries amid ongoing deadly clashes between Sudan’s army and the rival paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). But the violence that grips the country is making it hard for them to leave. France 24 · Apr 30, 2023
Reuters · Apr 29, 2023 A race to the border after childbirth as fighting forces Sudanese to flee As armed militias attacked and pillaged her village near the town of El Geneina in the western Darfur region of Sudan, pregnant 23-year-old Zamzam Adam was stranded, in labour, and alone, as neighbours fled across the border into Chad.
Al Jazeera · Apr 27, 2023 Shifting alliances in Sudan’s Darfur as new civil war fears rise Locals in Darfur arm themselves, believing army-RSF conflict could reignite ethnic violence and open war in region.
Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 30, 2022 Three Killed in Latest Violence in Sudan's Darfur Three people were killed Friday in Sudan's restive Darfur region, witnesses and an aid group said, as the United Nations condemned recent clashes that have left over 200 dead. West Darfur state, the arid region of Sudan bordering Chad, has for the past week been gripped by deadly violence between…
Reuters · Apr 25, 2022 West Darfur fighting spreads to capital city El Geneina - residents Armed clashes broke out on Monday in El Geneina, capital of West Darfur and Sudan's westernmost city, residents said, as fighting that killed scores of people in a nearby town over the weekend spread.
Asharq Al-Awsat · Jan 27, 2022 More Than 15,000 People Displaced in New Darfur Violence Renewed tribal violence near the western Sudanese city of El Geneina over the past week has displaced more than 15,000 people, the United Nations said. The war-weary Darfur region has seen an increase in violence recently, humanitarian groups say, which analysts link to a peace deal signed in October 2020…
Reuters · Jan 27, 2022 More than 15,000 people displaced in new Darfur violence, U.N. says Renewed tribal violence near the western Sudanese city of El Geneina over the past week has displaced more than 15,000 people, the United Nations said.