Clashes on the outskirts of Wad Madani threaten a city that is the center of aid operations and home to tens of thousands of people displaced in an eight-month war.
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East Africa Floods: Torrential Rain and Floods Wreak Havoc
The deluges have caused deaths and displacement in a region still reeling from its worst drought in four decades.
With Darfur in Its Sights, Paramilitary Group Is Accused of Atrocities
Seven months into Sudan’s civil war, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its allies are ransacking and capturing the Darfur region. An aid worker said, “People are dying like insects.”
Students on the Run, Schools Taken by Troops and a Generation’s Catastrophe
With an estimated 19 million children out of school for months because of war, Sudan is on the verge of becoming “the worst education crisis in the world,” U.N. officials say.
In Global Conflict Zones, Hospitals and Doctors Are No Longer Spared
Over the last two decades, medical facilities and staff have become casualties of war more frequently, in violation of international law.
U.A.E. Talks Peace in Sudan War, but Secretly Backs One Side
From a remote air base in Chad, the Emirates is giving arms and medical treatment to fighters on one side in Sudan’s worsening war, officials say.
Darfur’s New Generation, Once Full of Promise, Now Suffers ‘Fire of War’
In a region with a history of genocide, weeks of intense fighting between rival military factions in South Darfur have left hundreds dead and sent thousands fleeing.
‘They Blew Our Lives Up’: South Sudanese Flee War in Sudan
Hundreds of thousands fled a grisly civil conflict years ago to settle in Sudan, to the north. With war now raging there, they are streaming home to a country ill-prepared to take them back.
Fresh Fighting in Ethiopia Raises Fears of New War
Less than a year after the war in the country’s northern Tigray region ended, Ethiopia’s military is battling an ethnic militia in the neighboring Amhara region in a part of Africa already ravaged by conflict.
Mass Grave With Dozens of Bodies Uncovered in Sudan, U.N. Says
As war rages in Sudan, the United Nations said the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and its allies were responsible for killing at least 87 people in the western region of Darfur.