This is Beirut, 25/09 14:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
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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 ...
This is Beirut, 24/09 14:05 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
A drone strike on a market in Sudan's besieged city of El-Fasher killed 15 people, a medical worker at the local hospital told AFP on Wednesday. The Tuesday strike "killed 15 citizens and wounded 12, three of them critically," the medic said, requesting anonymity for his safety. The local resistance committees, activists who coordinate aid and ...
This is Beirut, 13/09 05:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt called on Friday for a three-month humanitarian truce in Sudan, to be followed by a permanent ceasefire and a nine-month transition towards civilian rule. In a joint statement issued by the US State Department, the four countries said the transition should "meet the ...
This is Beirut, 09/09 11:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
A wave of drone strikes hit key infrastructure and military targets near Sudan's army-held capital Tuesday, witnesses and officials told AFP, bringing to an abrupt end a period of relative calm in the area. Strikes hit a power station, a weapons factory and an oil refinery near Khartoum, witnesses at the sites said on condition of anonymity, ...
This is Beirut, 21/08 13:30 - Reading : less than a minute
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In the streets of Khartoum, workers and residents are busy bringing life back to a capital devastated by war. Rubble, destroyed power stations, gutted buildings… reconstruction will take years, but hope is returning.
This is Beirut, 14/08 10:45 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
At least 40 people have died in Sudan's Darfur region in the country's worst cholera outbreak in years, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Thursday. The medical charity said the vast western region, which has been a major battleground over more than two years of fighting between the regular army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, had ...
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Overcrowded camps in North Darfur face a deadly cholera outbreak as violence uproots thousands and access to clean water and healthcare disappears.
This is Beirut, 12/08 11:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
In the cholera-stricken refugee camps of western Sudan, every second is infected by fear. Faster than a person can boil water over an open flame, the flies descend and everything is contaminated once more. Cholera is ripping through the camps of Tawila in Darfur, where hundreds of thousands of people have been left with nothing but the water they ...
This is Beirut, 07/08 16:50 - Reading : 3 minute(s)
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The United Arab Emirates rejected on Thursday an announcement from Sudan's armed forces saying they had destroyed an Emirati plane ferrying Colombian mercenaries into the country to back its paramilitary rivals. Sudan has been locked in a war between its army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces since April 2023, with the military long ...
This is Beirut, 05/08 15:20 - Reading : 2 minute(s)
Thousands of families trapped in a besieged city in war-torn Sudan's west are at "risk of starvation", the World Food Program warned on Tuesday. Since May last year, El-Fasher, the state capital of North Darfur, has been under siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), who have been at war with the army since April ...
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Hundreds of Sudanese families are leaving Cairo on a free train journey back to their homeland, torn by two years of war.
This is Beirut, 04/07 15:50 - Reading : less than a minute
In northern Sudan, farmland is dying in silence. Since the beginning of the conflict in April 2023, electricity has been cut off. Without power, the pumps have stopped, and water from the Nile no longer reaches the crops. With AFP