Sudan

Sudan army nears biggest victory of civil war with assault on capital

Khartoum offensive comes as battlefield gains help turn tide of conflict in military’s favour

How the world is reeling from Trump’s aid freeze

Vulnerable populations already feeling impact as US president cuts off billions of dollars in US aid

Micheál Martin calls for ceasefires in Sudan and Gaza as regions are threatened by famine

Tánaiste says hunger caused by conflicts is being exacerbated by denial of humanitarian aid by warring parties

Sudan war pushing country towards partition, US envoy says

Tom Perriello says splitting nation apart would be a disaster for Sudanese people and regional stability

X-rays show shrapnel and bullets buried in children caught in Sudan war

Bashair teaching hospital in Khartoum has treated 314 children under the age of 15 for wounds from gunshots or blasts this year

Global hunger levels ‘to stay high for another 136 years’, assessment finds

42 countries have ‘serious’ or ‘alarming’ hunger levels as conflict takes toll

The Irish Times view on the war in Sudan: the forgotten war taking a terrible toll

It is vital that renewed international pressure is applied by the UN both for humanitarian access points and for an effective internationally-enforced arms embargo

Worldwide ‘indifference’ towards war in Sudan ‘truly shocking’, says Mary Robinson

Humanitarian organisations say hunger is being used as a weapon, with the hunger crisis in country now world’s largest

Hunger being used as weapon in Sudan war, humanitarian organisations say

Sudan’s hunger crisis is world’s largest with more than 25 million people suffering acute food insecurity

Netanyahu has distracted the world’s attention from countless other warmongering thugs

What kind of global mindset allows preposterous, insecure leaders in Sudan, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan, Russia and elsewhere to cock their legs on their own populations and the wider world?

At least 30 dead, many missing, after dam bursts in eastern Sudan

Flooding impacts homes of about 50,000 people, UN says

Sudan: Flooding kills at least 68 people as country faces multiple crises

Ongoing civil war has created the world’s largest displacement crisis and killed some 16,000 people

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As starvation spreads in Sudan, military blocks aid trucks at border

A country torn apart by civil war could soon face one of the world’s worst famines in decades, experts say

‘We are all going to die.’ Refugees in Sudan appeal for safe passage as ‘foreigners’ ordered to leave Khartoum

Asylum seekers fleeing conflict in other countries say they are not granted safe passage and fear for their lives

‘Profound human tragedy’: Sudan could soon have 10 million internally displaced people, UN says

A further 2 million, at least, have Sudan fled to neighbouring countries

‘Difficult choices’: The particular vulnerability of children with disabilities in South Sudan

Amid ‘the world’s invisible crisis’, children with disabilities, and the people who love them, face particularly severe challenges

‘On the precipice of a large scale massacre’: Sudan’s war escalates with dizzying speed

Surrounded by fighters and haunted by famine, residents of Darfur region fear worst

An African History of Africa by Zeinab Badawi: A richly rewarding sweep that challenges preconceptions

Quibbles about the Yoruba notwithstanding, readers of this magnificent book will find a huge cast of African greats worthy of another look or who deserve to be better known

World donors pledge more than €2bn in aid for war-stricken Sudan

UN officials and aid agencies at Paris conference also urge Sudan’s warring parties to stop rights violations and allow access for humanitarian aid

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