Dozens of people have been killed in violence this week in an area of Sudan’s West Darfur region and thousands of people have fled the violence, local medics said. The West Darfur Doctors Committee said attacks began in the Kreinik area on Saturday. Aid groups warn of rise in Darfur violence, dozens killed in Kreinik […]
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With escalating violence displacing thousands of people since November, the humanitarian situation in Sudan’s Darfur is getting worse and around 6.2 million people will need humanitarian assistance next year, UN agencies reported on Tuesday. Clashes displace thousands in Darfur, where 6.2 million will need assistance next year | | UN News
On the streets of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur – nestled between private houses mostly made of earth – are large, concrete public buildings. Some used to be schools, others a tribunal and a theatre. Now they are all flooded with people fleeing recent waves of violence. In January 2021, the Kirinding camp […]
Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman faces 31 charges, including persecution, murder, torture and rape. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/5/24/icc-hears-first-war-crimes-case-from-sudans-darfur-conflict
Attackers repelled by gunmen in incident that came days after clashes in restive region left hundreds dead. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/20/sudan-unknown-gunmen-attempt-to-storm-governors-home-in-darfur
Tribal clashes in Sudan’s Darfur region have killed at least 83 people in the latest bout of violence, according to a tally by the Central Committee of Sudan Doctors (CCSD). https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/17/at-least-48-people-killed-in-sudans-darfur-clashes
“It is the same as in the old days,” Adam Rojal, a coordinator in an internally displaced community in Sudan’s Darfur region told me recently. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/12/24/darfuris-call-for-protection-in-vain
The United Nations Security Council has agreed to end the UN and African Union’s long-running peacekeeping mission in Darfur when its mandate ceases on December 31. https://englishbeta.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2020/12/23/UN-agrees-to-end-Darfur-peacekeeping-mission
A displaced Sudanese woman walks past a UN-African Union mission to Darfur (UNAMID) vehicle at the Kalma camp for internally displaced people in Darfur’s state capital Niyala on October 9, 2019. (Ashraf Shazly/AFP) Crowds of people displaced by Sudan’s Darfur conflict protested Monday against the fast-approaching end to a long-running peacekeeping mission in the ravaged […]