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Sudan’s national treasures have been stolen – we spoke with the director of museums

In September, amid the ongoing war in Sudan, reports began to surface of the looting of the Sudan National Museum in the capital, Khartoum. The museum is internationally celebrated for the breadth of its collection. It illustrates powerful and unique African kingdoms from the ancient and medieval past in a…

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Sudan war death toll much higher than previously recorded, new study finds

Researchers estimate 60,000 deaths in Khartoum state in war’s first 14 months, far higher than other assessments.

Al Jazeera

Visualising the war in Sudan: Conflict, control and displacement

The world’s worst internal displacement crisis, with at least 14 million people uprooted from their homes, is in Sudan.

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Sudan militia accused of mass killings and sexual violence as attacks escalate

Experts fear reports of 124 dead in attack on villages south of Khartoum are significant underestimation

The Guardian - UK

Is Sudan’s army regaining ground lost in the civil war?

Sudan’s army has launched a sweeping offensive to retake some major cities, but will it succeed?

Al Jazeera

Sudan: military air strike killed 23 in market

The army continues to advance on the sudanese capital days after dozens are killed in Khartoum in airstrikes. The devastating 18 month war has created the world's biggest humanitarian crisis and rolled back regional growth.

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Sudan’s brutal war has become many wars, making peace even harder to reach

Sudan’s war runs grimly on. The two main protagonists (though there are others involved) are each claiming local victories. The Sudanese army appears to be slowly regaining control of the ruined capital, Khartoum, and has recovered some ground it lost elsewhere in Sudan. And the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…

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Sudan military’s strike on market in capital kills at least 23: Rescuers

Market is near one of the main camps in the Sudanese capital where the paramilitary RSF has been fighting the military.

Al Jazeera

Inside the last functioning hospital in Sudan’s Khartoum North

Due to repeated targeting of healthcare facilities, it is the only hospital left in Sudan’s populous city.

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In music and dance, Sudanese performers transport refugee audiences back home

Sudanese musicians and dancers perform in Cairo for an audience that is mostly refugees from the war-torn country

The Independent UK

Rwanda reports eight deaths linked to Ebola-like Marburg virus

In tonight's edition: Rwanda raises the alarm as eight people die after getting the Marburg disease, a highly contagious virus with Ebola-like symptoms. Also, the UAE is to file an official complaint with the African Union over what it calls a "heinous attack" on its mission in Khartoum. And we…

France 24

Is Sudan’s army on the verge of recapturing Khartoum?

Sudan’s army launched a major assault on Khartoum in a bid to recapture the capital from the Rapid Support Forces.

Al Jazeera

Sudan Paramilitary Attack Kills 18 At El-Fasher Market: Medic

A paramilitary attack on a market in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher killed 18 people, a medical source told AFP on Friday, after world leaders appealed for an end to the country's wartime suffering.

International Business Times

Sudan military offensive sparks new fighting in Khartoum as cholera outbreak worsens

Officials say new fighting has hit Sudan’s capital as the death toll jumps up from the country’s cholera outbreak

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Air strikes in Khartoum as Sudan army attacks paramilitary positions

Air strikes and shelling rocked Khartoum on Thursday as the army reportedly attacked paramilitary positions throughout the Sudanese capital.

Al Jazeera

Sudan’s army launches major offensive on Khartoum

The army lost control of most of the capital to the paramilitary RSF at the start of the conflict last April.

The Independent UK

Sudan’s jailed former strongman Omar al-Bashir is taken to a hospital in the north for better care

Sudan’s former autocratic President Omar al-Bashir, who ruled for 30 years before he was toppled in a popular uprising and then jailed by the country’s military rulers, has been transferred to a medical facility in northern Sudan

International Business Times

Sudan Museums' Precious Antiquities Looted In War

Sudan's priceless archaeological heritage is being stripped from museums, with looters loading statuettes and fragments of ancient palaces onto lorries, smuggling them out of the war-torn country, and selling them online.

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Looting of the Sudan National Museum – more is at stake than priceless ancient treasures

Reports continue to emerge of the alleged looting of tens of thousands of artefacts from the Sudan National Museum in Khartoum. The museum, near the confluence of the White and the Blue Niles, holds a history of the region, home to ancient civilisations, temples and pyramids. But it has been…

The Guardian - UK

Tens of thousands of artefacts looted from Sudan museum, says official

Thefts at Khartoum’s National Museum, one of most important in Africa, took place in region controlled by Rapid Support Forces group

Al Jazeera

Warring parties committing ‘widespread sexual violence’ in Sudan: HRW

Sexual and gender-based violence so severe they led to death, says rights group.

The Guardian - UK

Girls as young as nine gang-raped by paramilitaries in Sudan – report

Human Rights Watch accuses RSF militia of ‘countless’ cases of rape and torture in Khartoum in 15-month civil war

The Conversation

Amid humanitarian crisis and ongoing fighting, Africa’s war-scarred Sahel region faces new threat: Ethno-mercenaries

Sudan’s ongoing humanitarian crisis after more than a year of civil war shows few signs of abating. And amid the fighting, a significant and troubling development looks set to complicate the conflict and spread it beyond Sudan’s borders: the rise of “ethno-mercenarism.”

Al Jazeera

Dozens killed near Sudan’s capital as UN warns of soaring displacement

Attack in Khartoum’s sister city of Omdurman comes as UN says internal displacement across Sudan is nearing 10 million.

Al Jazeera

What was the ‘Khartoum Massacre’ marked by Sudan’s activists?

Killings of at least 120 pro-democracy protesters in 2019 were a flashpoint between activists and the military.

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