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Sudan Army-Aligned Group Accuses RSF of Executing 2,000 in El-Fasher

This is Beirut, 28/10 10:40 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

United Nations Sudan Conflict Darfur RSF

Sudanese army allies, the Joint Forces, accused paramilitaries of having "executed more than 2,000 unarmed civilians" since taking control of the western city of El-Fasher on Sunday, as alarming reports of atrocities emerge. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war with the army for over two years, "committed heinous crimes against innocent ...

Sudan's RSF Claims Control of Last Army Stronghold in Darfur

This is Beirut, 27/10 08:50 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Sudan Conflict El Fasher Massaad Boulos RSF Darfur

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said Sunday it had seized full control of El-Fasher, the last major city in the expansive Darfur region not in its hands, in a potential turning point in the country's unrelenting civil war. The announcement came just hours after it claimed to have captured the army's main base in the city, which it ...

What Do We Know About Sudan's Shifting Battlefield?

This is Beirut, 25/09 14:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Sudan Rapid Support Forces Darfur

The war in Sudan has reached a critical phase that threatens to permanently fracture a country already devastated by displacement, famine, and disease. What began more than two years ago as a power struggle between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has escalated into a brutal fight for territorial control, with the ...

Landslide Flattens Sudan Village, Kills More than 1,000

This is Beirut, 02/09 10:36 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

United Nations Sudan Darfur Landslide

A massive landslide in Sudan's western Darfur region has flattened an entire mountain village and killed more than 1,000 people, a rebel group said, leaving only one survivor. The disaster struck Sunday after days of heavy rain, devastating the village of Tarasin in the Jebel Marra area, the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM), led by ...

Sudan: What You Need to Know After Two Years of Hell

Mario Chartouni, 15/04 20:00 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

Sudan Conflict Darfur United Arab Emirates

Since April 15, 2023, Sudan has been ravaged by a brutal civil war between the country’s two main armed forces: the regular army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary militia commanded by General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as Hemedti. The conflict, which erupted in the heart of the ...

Sudan Paramilitaries Capture Key Darfur Town

This is Beirut, 10/04 18:55 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Sudan Paramilitaries Rapid Support Forces Darfur

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces said Thursday they had overrun Um Kadadah, a key town on the road to El-Fasher, the last city in Darfur still in the hands of their regular army foes. "Our forces took full control of the strategic town of Um Kadadah," an RSF spokesman said in a statement, adding that hundreds of members of its garrison ...

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