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

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Displaying 27 results from 2025 (out of 605 total).

Abu Dhabi pressures Mahamat Kaka

The RSF’s seizure of El Fasher exposed the fragility of the Ndjamena regime and its dependence on United Arab Emirates funding

The seizure of El Fasher by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on 26 October prompted louder calls from United States and European Union politicians for sanctions against the...

Burhan’s leadership in question after Darfur retreat

The fall of El Fasher exposes international failures as the RSF kills thousands of civilians with impunity

The Rapid Support Forces’ seizure of El Fasher on 26 October after a brutal 16 month siege, gives it control over much of western Sudan and has strengthened...

From resistance to rebuilding

For the second year in a row, they are nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, but on the ground their work is getting ever more difficult. After the...

Khartoum rebuffs US-Arab peace roadmap

Calling for a three-month humanitarian truce and banning Islamists, the Quad plan brings civilian politicians into talks for a post-war transition

After multiple failed attempts to chart a route out of Sudan’s devastating civil war, the statement by the Quad – Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and the...

The deadly stalemate deepens

As both sides escalate drone warfare backed by foreign patrons, civilians are trapped in a cycle of violence, revenge and economic devastation

The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) have clawed back large tracts of land in the heart of the country forcing the Rapid Support Forces to refocus on western Sudan...

Would-be mediators mull a new initiative

US officials have sounded out the combatants and their backers over a new peace plan – but nobody is jumping into fresh talks

A flurry of peace initiatives put to the warring factions in Sudan and their main sponsors is yet to move the needle. But it may prompt would-be mediators...

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General Burhan’s premier tries to build new civilian government in Khartoum

Questions are multiplying about the role of military-appointed prime minister Kamil Idris and his ties with Islamist activists vying for control of the government in the east

New Prime Minister Kamil Idris’s decision to dissolve the government in preparation to form a new cabinet breaches the 2020 peace agreement, according to some political parties, including...

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How Hemeti’s drone attacks reshaped the war

After the latest strikes on Port Sudan, the rival factions may have to choose between total war or negotiations

When the Rapid Support Forces launched a fusillade of drones against Port Sudan on 4 May, they once again changed the terms of engagement in the devastating two-year...

Gulf States power play scuppers peace bid

A peace conference on Sudan declined to hold the Middle Eastern sponsors of the war to account. Now the conflict is spreading to Chad

If anyone questioned that the Gulf States United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, with their less pecunious partner Egypt, hold a veto on Sudan policy, the conference in...

Emiratis accused of shipping arms from the South

Diplomats suspect Abu Dhabi is building a new military logistics centre, hidden alongside a hospital, for Hemeti’s forces across the border

In a blaze of publicity the United Arab Emirates announced 10 March the opening of the Madhol Field Hospital in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr el Ghazal state, adjacent...

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Arab proxy war in Sudan laid bare as London summit fails

The gulf between Saudi Arabia’s and the United Arab Emirates’ positions prevented the formation of a contact group

Disagreement among the regional sponsors of the main combatants in Sudan’s civil war, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and Rapid Support Forces (RSF), led to the collapse of...

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Cash, platitudes but no peace

About US$750 million in fresh humanitarian aid – €522m ($592m) from the European Union and £120m ($158m) from the United Kingdom – was on the table along with...

Mahamat’s UAE ties could unravel

As General Burhan and the SAF gain ground, President Mahamat and his allies will face growing pressure at home and in Darfur

All eyes are on Sudan, especially now that the military dynamics are shifting in eastern and central areas in favour of Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) commander General Abdel...

The generals choose partition over peace

General Burhan’s SAF has won back the eastern and central lands taken by the RSF but a deadly stalemate persists

The battle for control of Khartoum is raging. The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) led by General Abdel Fattah al Burhan is fighting for control of what is left...

Region will be key in bid to end war

Without serious pressure on the war’s sponsors, the fighting could drag on, perhaps leading to national partition

After 20 months of fighting, the dynamics of Sudan’s war are changing. Clashes in many of the most populated areas are slowing down because sides are trying to...

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