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Sudan: Guterres calls for ceasefire in El Fasher, deplores ‘relentless’ militia attacks

·August 30, 2025·1 min read

António Guterres said he was “appalled by the relentless attacks” by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia on the North Darfur state capital, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said in a statement. The paramilitary group and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have been battling for control of devastated country since April...

Sudan: ‘Devastating tragedy’ for children in El Fasher after 500 days of siege

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·August 28, 2025·1 min read

Around 260,000 civilians – including 130,000 children – remain trapped in the area’s main camp for internally displaced people, enduring desperate conditions without aid for more than 16 months. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been battling forces of the military government for control of Sudan for over two...

World News in Brief: Gaza humanitarian update, more killings in Sudan, ending impunity in Myanmar

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·August 23, 2025·3 min read

Multiple strikes overnight into Friday were reported in the Jabalya Al Balad and An Nazla neighbourhoods, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its latest update. As a result, around 900 people reportedly fled towards the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood and western Gaza City. Safe passage,...

First Person: From aid worker to refugee and back in war-torn Sudan

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·August 18, 2025·4 min read

Sudan is one of the world’s largest and most complex humanitarian crises, with more than 30.4 million people – over half the population – urgently needing humanitarian assistance, yet the 2025 Sudan humanitarian needs and response plan is severely underfunded, with only 13.3 per cent of the required resources received...

World News in Brief: Cholera strikes Sudan and beyond, humanitarian needs grown for returning Afghans, rising insecurity in DR Congo

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·August 16, 2025·2 min read

So far this year, cholera has killed more than 4,300 people across 31 countries. These figures are underestimates and there is particular concern for those impacted by war in Sudan, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Yemen. In Sudan, the disease has already claimed over 1,000...

Sudan: UN ‘deeply alarmed’ by major attack on besieged El Fasher

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·August 13, 2025·1 min read

Monday’s attack left 40 civilians dead and 19 injured within Abu Shouk, according to humanitarian partners. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that the renewed violence forced at least 500 residents of the camp to flee to other parts of North Darfur. Acting Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Sheldon Yett,...

Sudan: You can run – but we will find you, militias warn terrified civilians

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·August 9, 2025·4 min read

“People told me multiple times that when they were fleeing from Zamzam [displacement camp], armed people would threaten them while they were in flight, saying sure, ‘Flee, go to that place, run here, run there, we will follow you, we will find you’,” said Jocelyn Elizabeth Knight, a Protection Officer...

Sudan gripped by deadly crisis as hunger, disease and heat intensify

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·July 30, 2025·1 min read

In El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur that has been under siege for 15 months, the catastrophic humanitarian situation is worsening. Food shortages and soaring prices have forced community-run kitchens to shut down. Widespread hunger and malnutrition have reportedly caused several deaths and driven some residents to eat animal...

Amid starvation in Gaza, Sudan, Guterres slams hunger ‘as a weapon of war’

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·July 29, 2025·2 min read

The development comes as UN Secretary-General António Guterres cautioned that conflict-driven hunger is spreading “from Gaza to Sudan and beyond”. “Hunger fuels instability and undermines peace. We must never accept hunger as a weapon of war,” he said in a video message to the UN Food Systems Summit Stocktake in...

Global collaboration grows to address crises in Gaza, Sudan, Afghanistan

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·July 24, 2025·2 min read

Briefing the Security Council on Thursday, Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, said the OIC remains an “indispensable” partner in efforts to promote peace, uphold international law and deliver durable political solutions in a range of crisis contexts. Headquartered in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the OIC has 57 member...

Aid cuts leave refugee agency unable to shelter six in 10 fleeing war in Sudan

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·July 18, 2025·3 min read

Globally, $1.4 billion of the agency’s programmes are being shuttered or put on hold, UNHCR said in a new report. “We can’t stop water, you can’t stop sanitation, but we’re having to take decisions when it comes, for example, to shelter,” said UNHCR Director of External Relations Dominique Hyde. “We’re...

UN rights chief condemns recent killing of scores of civilians in Sudan

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·July 18, 2025·2 min read

Since 10 July, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, has verified that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have killed at least 60 civilians in North Kordofan’s Bara locality, while civil society groups have reported that up to 300 were killed. The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) also hit two villages in...