The Latest Breaking News from Sudan

Manchester doctor stopped from boarding Sudan evacuation flight 'safely arrives in Cyprus' after U-turn

Dr Babiker has reportedly left the African country

Manchester Evening News · Apr 29, 2023

Sudanese stuck as passports locked in abandoned Western embassies

Sudanese visa applicants trapped in a war zone after Western diplomats evacuated Khartoum without returning passports.

Al Jazeera · Apr 29, 2023

Sudanese flee to Egypt as Cairo works to avoid ‘refugee crisis’

Processing on the Egyptian side is slow, with some people waiting days to hear their names called so they can proceed.

Al Jazeera · Apr 29, 2023

Sudan risks long conflict as entrenched rivals struggle for control

Sudan's warring factions are locked in a conflict that two weeks of fighting shows neither can easily win, raising the spectre of a drawn-out war between an agile paramilitary force and the better-equipped army that could destabilise a fragile region.

Reuters · Apr 29, 2023

UN envoy sees Sudan combatants more open to talks

Warring sides in Sudan are more open to negotiations and have accepted the conflict that erupted two weeks ago cannot continue, a U.N. official told Reuters on Saturday, a possible flicker of hope even as fighting continued.

Reuters · Apr 29, 2023

Heavy battles in Sudan despite latest truce, over 70 dead in recent violence

Heavy explosions and gunfire rocked Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and its twin city of Omdurman, residents said, despite the extension of a fragile truce between the county’s two top generals whose power struggle has left hundreds dead.

Radio France Internationale · Apr 29, 2023

Watch live: Smoke rises over Sudan’s capital as ‘airstrikes’ continue amid ceasefire

Thick smoke has been spotted rising over Khartoum, Sudan as fighting enters a third week and ceasefires come to an end this weekend.

The Independent UK · Apr 29, 2023

Iran Hails Saudi Arabia's Role in Evacuating Iranians from Sudan

Iran on Saturday hailed Saudi Arabia’s role in evacuating 65 Iranian citizens from conflict-torn Sudan. Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani said that since the onset of the unrest in Sudan, the Iranian Foreign Ministry has deported 65 Iranians stranded in Sudan, and “has taken the necessary arrangements to transfer…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 29, 2023

Deadline passes for British nationals in Sudan to reach evacuation airfield

Some 1,573 people on 13 flights have been evacuated from the airfield near the capital of Khartoum but thousands more British citizens may remain.

The Independent UK · 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.

Reuters · Apr 29, 2023