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Sudan
Population: 49.14m
GDP: $26.87bn
Debt: 280.3% GDP (2024)

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Displaying 19 results from 2024 (out of 605 total).

Fight for Darfur and Khartoum intensifies

Buoyed by foreign backers and ignoring civilian casualties, both Burhan and Hemeti claim a breakthrough is in sight

For the next few months of the dry season, the rival factions look set to concentrate their forces in the devastating battles for control of two cities and...

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Mahamat Kaka’s Darfur policy starts blowing back

The Zaghawa are turning against the President’s arms shipment deals with the UAE and backing for Hemeti’s RSF militia

Two raging urban battles – in Khartoum and El Fasher in North Darfur – could determine the next stage in Sudan’s devastating war: the de facto partition of...

Swiss dead-end prompts policy rethink

General Burhan’s refusal to attend talks may prompt new negotiating strategy benefiting Hemeti’s fighters

One of the ‘seeds of hope’ identified by United States envoy Tom Perriello as the Sudan peace talks in Switzerland broke up on 23 August was an accord...

Incapable of defeating each other, the generals fight on

The political ambitions and unfathomable greed of the rival leaders are driving their country to destruction

It is a mark of the intractability of the conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that during the peace talks in Switzerland...

Burhan risks isolation by boycotting Geneva peace talks

Hemeti and his sponsors in the United Arab Emirates are exploiting the Sudan Armed Forces’ clumsy diplomacy

The Sudan peace talks which started in Geneva on 14 August mark a new phase in the posturing and positioning that has derailed so much of the diplomacy...

As the civil war threatens the region, the UAE boosts Hemeti’s militia

Neighbouring states are staking out their positions after serial peace efforts have failed to rein in Sudan’s rival military factions

With over 10 million people internally displaced and a further two million forced to flee to Chad, Egypt and South Sudan, the war between Sudan’s rival miliary factions...

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Egypt-backed peace talks make slow progress

Rival factions met in Cairo for reconciliation discussions but deep divisions limited the prospects for meaningful progress

The latest international attempts – this time by Egypt – to broker peace talks between the two sides in the civil war are already struggling. Cairo, which backs...

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Moscow changes sides

Russia's deal to supply arms to the SAF in exchange for a Red Sea naval base could mark a turning point in Sudan's civil war

The decision by the Sudanese army to allow a Russian naval base to be built in exchange for arms could mark a pivotal step in the civil war.

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Facing no pressure, the generals escalate their war again

After a year of fighting that has all but destroyed the country, outsiders either ignore or sponsor the rival military factions

It was a cruelly surreal moment after a year of what has become the world's most destructive war, with over 8 million people driven from their homes and...

Funds raised but no political progress at the Paris conference

Obsessed by Gaza and Ukraine, delegates couldn’t agree on a path to restart ceasefire negotiations

On 15 April, a year after war between the rival military factions broke out in Sudan, France's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the European Union hosted an international...

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Fighting in Darfur risks humanitarian disaster, warns UN

The threat of bloodshed, mass famine and starvation is growing as conflict in the year-long civil war intensifies in North Darfur

The 800,000 civilians living in the Sudanese city El Fasher are in 'extreme and immediate danger', the United Nations aid operations director, Edem Wosornu, has warned the UN...

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Ceasefire efforts resume as Burhan's forces go on offensive

After a year of the generals' war, the UN says the country is weeks away from a 'catastrophic hunger crisis'

International alignments on the Sudan civil war are shifting and there are multiple attempts to revive the stalled talks for a ceasefire ahead of a feared escalation in...

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IGAD returns to Sudan negotiations with a peace envoy

The authority said Korbandy would provide 'pivotal good offices' in seeking to get Burhan and Hemeti to the negotiating table

The Horn of Africa's Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) named South Sudanese lawyer Lawrence Korbandy as Special Envoy for Sudan on Tuesday.

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Why Tagadum could be a turning point

A civilian initiative to bring the warring factions to the negotiating table may be the last defence against a war that would shatter the country

Two opportunities to broker a ceasefire in Sudan's ruinous civil war have been arbitrarily waived aside in the new year by the warring generals' cohorts, raising concerns of...

Mahamat Kaka co-opts Succès in pre-election campaign

Focused on consolidating power, the junta leader is bringing rivals into the tent and trying to avoid more entanglements in Sudan

The devastating war in Sudan and awkward relations with France and the United Arab Emirates are casting a long shadow over Chad this year as its military leader...

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