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Seven European countries urge ‘immediate halt’ to Sudan violence

Seven European countries have called on Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to immediately stop their assault on El-Obeid, a city in Sudan's North Kordofan state, warning of credible signs that a major offensive could be imminent as civilians face worsening shortages of food, water and fuel.

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UN warns of an 'imminent risk of mass atrocities' in Sudan's Kordofan

In Sudan, NGOs and the UN have warned of an "imminent risk of mass atrocities" in El-Obeid, a major city in North Kordofan. This comes as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) step up their campaign against the regular army in the region.

Radio France Internationale

Sudan's war puts charity kitchen workers feeding displaced families at risk

Charity kitchens are a lifeline in Sudan after nearly three years of war but the community-led public kitchens have been targeted and some of their workers abducted, robbed, beaten or killed

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UN probe finds 'hallmarks of genocide' in Sudan's El-Fasher

The UN's independent fact-finding mission on Sudan said Thursday the paramilitary siege and capture of El-Fasher bore "the hallmarks of genocide".

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UN experts say destruction by Sudan's rebels in el-Fasher in October bears 'hallmarks of genocide'

U.N.-backed investigators say Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces have carried out a campaign in el-Fasher that shows hallmarks of genocide against non-Arab communities

The Independent UK

At least 6,000 killed over 3 days during RSF attack on Sudan’s el-Fasher, UN says

Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces killed more than 6,000 people in three days during an assault on el-Fasher, the U.N. Human Rights Office has said

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Famine spreads to more towns in Sudan’s Darfur region, hunger experts warn as war rages on

A global hunger monitoring group says that famine is spreading in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region and has now engulfed two more towns there

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Sudan's El-Fasher under the RSF, destroyed and 'full of bodies'

When Sudanese nurse Asmaa returned to the Darfur city of El-Fasher, she found only bodies where her neighbours once lived and no sign of the family she had come to save.

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Sudanese paramilitary group RSF killed more than 1,000 civilians in Zamzam camp in April, UN says

The U.N. Human Rights Office says in a new report that more than 1,000 civilians were killed in a three-day attack by the Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces on Sudan's largest displacement camp

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Hundreds of children separated from families while fleeing violence in Sudan's west Darfur

Hundreds of children have arrived in a Sudanese refugee camp without their families as thousands of people have fled violence in western Darfur

The Independent UK

EU sanctions Sudanese paramilitary leader after atrocities by his forces in Darfur

The war began in 2023, when tensions erupted between the army and the RSF that were meant to oversee a democratic transition after a 2019 coup unseated former President Omar al-Bashir.

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Dozens of pregnant women flee from Sudan's el-Fasher, risking their lives and babies

Nadra Mohamed Ahmed was seven months when she trekked for nearly 25 miles across unsafe roads

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UN human rights body holds special session on Sudan after hundreds killed in Darfur's el-Fasher

The U.N.’s top human rights body is holding a one-day special session to highlight hundreds of killings at a hospital in Sudan’s Darfur region and other atrocities committed last month by paramilitary forces fighting the army

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Sudan war displaces 2,000 in three days as North Kordofan becomes new flashpoint

More and more people are seeking refuge in overcrowded camps

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Sudan’s civilians flee mounting atrocities as Darfur’s war deepens

Tens of thousands of Sudanese are on the move once again, fleeing reported atrocities after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) captured the key western city of el-Fasher late last month.

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Thousands flee to overcrowded camps after Sudan's paramilitary captures el-Fasher

Tens of thousands of Sudanese have fled to overcrowded camps to escape atrocities by a paramilitary force since it captured el-Fasher in the Western Darfur region

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Social media videos, satellite images capture snapshot of atrocities in Sudan

New analysis of online videos, satellite images and eyewitness accounts has painted a chilling picture of atrocities committed during the capture of El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces. The findings reveal a campaign of violence against civilians that researchers say could constitute war crimes.

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Sudan’s paramilitary forces agree to US proposal for humanitarian ceasefire

The RSF has been accused of atrocities in el-Fasher since taking the city in October

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Sudan's paramilitary group said it agrees on truce proposed by U.S.-led mediator group

The Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group that has been at war with the Sudanese military for over two years, said it has agreed to a humanitarian truce that was proposed by U.S.-led mediator group, also known as the Quad

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Sudan's paramilitary kills at least 40 people as fighting spreads into Kordofan region

Sudan's paramilitary force has attacked the city of el-Obeid, killing at least 40 civilians

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France, UN call for a ceasefire in Sudan amid mounting reports of atrocities

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has called for a ceasefire between the warring parties in Sudan, with Paris denouncing the ethnic nature of the abuses attributed to the RSF paramilitaries, particularly in the flashpoint city of El-Fasher.

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UN secretary-general warns that war in Sudan is 'spiraling out of control'

The United Nations secretary-general warns that the war in Sudan is spiraling out of control

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Sudan’s paramilitary investigated over ‘war crimes’ as tens of thousands flee

More than 70,000 people have fled el-Fashir so far after Sudan’s paramilitary force captured the city

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Famine spreads to two more areas in Sudan, global hunger authority says

The world's leading authority on hunger crises says famine has spread to two regions in war-torn Sudan

The Independent UK

Fears grow for thousands trapped in Sudan's el-Fasher as few reach safety

An aid group reports that only a few thousand Sudanese have escaped atrocities by Sudan's paramilitary forces in el-Fasher city

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