The Latest Breaking News from Sudan

Refugees who escaped Sudan’s civil war and fled to Ethiopia have found themselves on the run from another conflict

In recent years, armed conflicts have frequently made global headlines, but media coverage has largely focused on just a few highly publicised wars. These conflicts represent only the tip of the iceberg: more than 50 countries are currently suffering from shocking levels of armed violence, many of which receive little…

In the last few years, there has been a spate of military coups in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Guinea. Military rule, long dormant in African politics, is back.

Russia's veto of U.N. resolution on Sudan's cease-fire sparks criticism, highlighting complex conflict dynamics and urgent need for international action.

David Lammy berated Russia’s first deputy permanent representative to the UN for fiddling with his mobile phone during a UN Security Council session on a joint UK-Sierra Leone draft resolution calling for a national ceasefire on Monday, 18 November.

UK slams Russia for vetoing resolution urging immediate end to hostilities, talks to reach ‘national ceasefire’.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Russia was ‘condemning black Africans to further killing, further rape, further starvation in a brutal civil war’.

Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on Monday calling for an immediate end to hostilities in Sudan where a war between two rival generals has been raging since April 2023.

Images released by MSF doctors highlight impact of conflict in the country, with medical supplies and aid unable to reach people due to fighting

Practice banned in both countries but widespread among those displaced by Sudan’s civil war, say aid workers

The UN Security Council on Monday will take up a draft resolution calling for an immediate end to hostilities in Sudan, where a war between two rival generals shows no sign of easing.