Sudan
🇸🇩 Sudan’s RSF forces are violently raiding villages in El Gezira state, displacing 135,000 people as victims report brutal attacks over two weeks. The UN condemns these atrocities while civilians flee to overcrowded regions. The ongoing war deepens hunger and fears of fragmentation.
🇸🇩 US condemns Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces for brutal attacks on civilians, threatens further sanctions as violence rages on. Meanwhile, humanitarian crisis deepens with shocking 14M people now displaced across the war-torn nation.
🇸🇩 UN chief Guterres warns of “nightmare” ethnic violence in Sudan with RSF killing 124 in latest massacre, but says conditions aren’t right for UN peacekeeping force as half the population needs aid and 11M displaced in world’s largest refugee crisis.
🇸🇩 A plane downed in Sudan’s North Darfur, reportedly crewed by Russians, was supplying the army with weapons, according to the opposing Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The incident reveals the complex supply chains fueling Sudan’s 18-month conflict, with foreign powers manipulating the war.
🇸🇩 Sudan’s army reported the defection of senior RSF commander Abuagla Keikal, marking the first high-profile split since the conflict began 18 months ago. Keikal’s defection, according to the army, was motivated by the RSF’s “destructive agenda.”
🇸🇩 As Sudan’s civil war deepens, millions teeter on the brink of starvation, trapped between two warring factions using food as a weapon. The UN, tied down by a weak global system and fearful of expulsion, struggles to deliver aid to those most in need.