Tag: Khartoum

  • Warring Sudan groups have agreed to a truce

    Warring Sudan groups have agreed to a truce

    After the US evacuated its staff from Sudan’s capital Khartoum, British Foreign Minister Andrew Mitchell said that 2,000 UK citizens still in the country have registered with the embassy for potentialevacuation. Over 420 people have been killed and over 3,700 wounded in nine days of fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary group…

  • Residents of Khartoum live in fear and desperation as fighting rages

    Residents of Khartoum live in fear and desperation as fighting rages

    Amid the ongoing conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Khartoum, a South African woman said her house was shaking because of the war planes. “Our children are crying because they are very scared and the house is shaking because of the war planes,” she added. The children…

  • Attempt at Cease-Fire Appears to Fail as Reports of Fighting Continue

    Attempt at Cease-Fire Appears to Fail as Reports of Fighting Continue

    The University of Khartoum students have been stuck inside campus buildings in Sudan’s capital Khartoum for over three days due to the fighting between the army and a paramilitary group, Reuters reported. “The secretary expressed his grave concern about…death and injury of so many Sudanese civilians due to the sustained, indiscriminate fighting,” UN Under-Secretary General…

  • Hospitals Targeted in Sudan have a higher death toll

    Hospitals Targeted in Sudan have a higher death toll

    The US embassy in Khartoum, Sudan on Monday said that there are “no plans to evacuate Americans from the country because of the closure of the airport”. This comes after clashes broke out between the army and a paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Saturday. The US has warned its…

  • The witnesses describe the hospitals that were bombed in Sudan

    The witnesses describe the hospitals that were bombed in Sudan

    A human rights activist in Sudan’s Omdurman city said, “There were intense battles in the city of Omdurman and the capital of Khartoum early Sunday morning.” This comes after forces of the National Congress Party (NCP) captured Khartoum airport in a coup on Saturday. On Monday, the US embassy in Sudan said there were no…

  • Dozens of civilians died in the Sudanese army’s battle with the RSF

    Dozens of civilians died in the Sudanese army’s battle with the RSF

    Sudan on Sunday imposed a curfew after clashes broke out in the country between its military and an armed group. Several international agencies and organisations, including the UN’s World Food Programme, have temporarily stopped all operations in Sudan after three of its employees were killed in the clashes. On Saturday, the army had seized control…

  • Dozens of civilians are dead as the Sudan’s army and RSF engage in battle

    Dozens of civilians are dead as the Sudan’s army and RSF engage in battle

    The Sudanese military and the Revolutionary Forces (SUF) fought for control of the country’s capital Khartoum for the second day in a row on Monday, a report said. Over 600 people were wounded, including civilians and fighters, Sudan Doctors’ Syndicate said. The conflict broke out with the emergence of the RSF, a militia group loyal…

  • Dozens of people are dead because of the battle between Sudan’s army and RSF

    Dozens of people are dead because of the battle between Sudan’s army and RSF

    US Secretary of State John Godfrey has urged senior military leaders in Sudan to stop the fighting between the military and the rebel group RSF after clashes left at least 56 civilians dead in the country’s capital Khartoum. “I urgently call on senior military leaders to stop the fighting,” he tweeted. In December, the military…

  • Sudan paramilitary group battles with army

    Sudan paramilitary group battles with army

    Sudan’s army has accused the country’s Civil Liberation Front (CLF) of inciting the clashes in Khartoum, according to reports. At least three civilians have been killed in the fighting between the Army and the RSF, local media said. The clashes come amid tensions between the Army and the CLF over who should lead and become…