The Latest Breaking News from Sudan

(This May 1 story has been refiled to fix a typographical error in paragraph 17)

In tonight's edition: The UN's World Food Programme resumes its operations in Sudan, but the conflict continues amid a little-respected truce extension and warnings of a humanitarian catastrophe. Also, Senegal registers the first death from a closely watched outbreak of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. Plus, extremist fighters from the CODECO militia…

The extra rescue missions left Port Sudan after UK citizens faced a noon deadline to complete a dangerous 500-mile drive from Khartoum

Critical shortages of basic goods including water, and bodies piling in streets creating ‘environmental catastrophe’

Brief letters: Sudanese crisis | Food prices | Tory foot soldiers | Value of the monarchy | Swearing allegiance

Civilians are helping Sudan’s most vulnerable via food banks, donations, logistical coordination and medical support.

The United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Sudan warned on Monday that the humanitarian crisis in the country was turning into a "full blown catastrophe" and that the risk of spillover into neighboring countries was worrisome. "It has been more than two weeks of devastating fighting in Sudan, a conflict that…

When bridges closed in her area of Sudan's capital Khartoum, Palestinian medical student Nour Kullab thought it was just another protest.

Those wanting to leave the war-torn country were asked to be at Port Sudan by 11am UK time on Monday.

More than 800,000 people may flee Sudan as a result of fighting between military factions, including many who had already come there as refugees, a U.N. official said on Monday.

The growing rapprochement between Riyadh and Tehran after years of mistrust was visible on Monday as Saudi Arabia helped evacuate Iranian citizens fleeing the war in Sudan.