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News Articles: Darfur

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Photos: Two years of war in Sudan

Images of Sudan, after two years of civil war have led to the world biggest humanitarian crisis.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Faiz Abubakr,
  • Tara Neill,
  • and 1 more
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on April 13 that it had taken control of the famine-hit Zamzam camp for the internally displaced. Here, people who fled the Zamzam camp after it fell under RSF control rest in a makeshift encampment in an open field in Sudan's western Darfur region on Sunday.

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  • World

Sudan's war is 2 years in and shows no signs of slowing, as talks take place

As "pathway to peace talks" are held in London - minus the main protagonists - Sudan tips into a third year of catastrophic civil war, as violence surges in the Darfur region of the west of the country and activists warn of an unfolding genocide.

April 15, 2025
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
Displaced Sudanese, who fled the Zamzam camp, gather near the town of Tawila in North Darfur

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  • World

In Sudan, hundreds killed in attacks on famine-hit displacement camps

Sudanese paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces has claimed it has taken control of famine-hit Zamzam camp, after days of deadly fighting in the Darfur region.

April 14, 2025
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
A displaced Sudanese child pours water at Zamzam camp in Darfur, Sudan, Aug. 1. Famine was confirmed in the camp that same month.

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  • World

Sudan's biggest refugee camp was already struck with famine. Now it's being shelled

The siege, blamed on the Rapid Support Forces, has sparked a new humanitarian catastrophe and marks an alarming turning point in the Darfur region, already overrun by violence.

December 21, 2024
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
A police officer looks through damage caused by a shell at the Omdurman Maternity Hospital in Omdurman, Sudan, on Sept. 7. <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/11/01/nx-s1-5168376/sudan-khartoum-ombdurman-war-africa"target="_blank"   >Click here for the full story. </a>

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  • World

Here's what life is like in a city in the grip of Sudan’s brutal war

The Sudanese city of Omdurman lives in the shadow of war, facing daily shelling and battered medical services. But some people are trying to eke out a return to life, however precarious.

November 01, 2024
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
Sudanese refugees who have fled from the war in Sudan get off a truck loaded with families arriving at a transit center for refugees in Renk, South Sudan, on Feb. 13.

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  • Africa

Sudan's conflict hits the 1-year mark, sparking fears of repeated atrocities

Since fighting broke out between the Sudanese Armed Forces and rebel paramilitaries a year ago, experts estimate over 14,000 people have been killed and millions displaced and facing starvation.

April 15, 2024
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
Fighters ride in a vehicle moving in a military convoy accompanying the governor of Sudan's Darfur State on Aug. 30, 2023.

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  • Africa

An account from the frontline of 'the largest displacement of children on the planet'

James Elder is a spokesperson for UNICEF — the U.N. agency that provides humanitarian aid to children — and has been visiting the areas on the border of Sudan and Chad.

February 12, 2024
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By:
  • Sacha Pfeiffer,
  • Michael Levitt,
  • and 1 more
A man inspects damage as he walks through the rubble by a destroyed car outside a house that was hit by an artillery shell in the Azhari district in the south of Khartoum on June 6, 2023.

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  • Africa

The conflict in Sudan enters its fourth month with no sign of a peaceful resolution

There is no sign of a peaceful resolution to the conflict in Sudan. Millions of Sudanese civilians continue to be displaced as the country teeters on the brink of full-scale civil war.

July 17, 2023
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By:
  • A Martínez and
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
A covered body across from an armored vehicle on a street in the West Darfur state capital El Geneina on June 16, amid ongoing fighting between forces led by two generals in Sudan.

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  • World

In Sudan's Darfur, a rights group calls for an investigation into mounting atrocities

Human Rights Watch is calling for the International Criminal Court to investigate attacks the rights group says amount to war crimes in West Darfur.

July 11, 2023
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By:
  • Emmanuel Akinwotu
People walk among scattered objects in the market of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, as fighting continues in Sudan between the forces of two rival generals, on April 29, 2023.

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  • Africa

Sudan's fighting risks reigniting war in Darfur, a site of atrocities 20 years ago

As fighting in Sudan's capital continues to rage, experts say it's spilling over into the Darfur region and risks fully reigniting a conflict from the early 2000s that left hundreds of thousands dead.

June 10, 2023
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett
A boat from Sudan with nearly 1,700 civilians from more than 50 countries arrives in Jedda, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday after crossing the Red Sea. Foreigners and Sudanese citizens have been fleeing Sudan since fighting broke out between two rival generals nearly two weeks ago.

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  • Africa

Sudan's rival generals share a troubled past: genocide in Darfur

Two generals are currently battling for control of Sudan's capital Khartoum. In the early 2000s, both played key roles in the government's brutal crackdown in Darfur, which was ruled a genocide.

April 27, 2023
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By:
  • Greg Myre
Smoke is seen in Khartoum,  April 22. The fighting in the capital between the Sudanese Army and Rapid Support Forces resumed after an internationally brokered cease-fire failed.

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  • World

As Sudan's conflict continues into its second week, here's what to know

With fighting continuing between rival generals, thousands are fleeing the country and embassies have shut. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres warns the violence may spread to other countries.

April 27, 2023
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By:
  • Kate Bartlett and
  • Michele Kelemen
Smoke rises during clashes in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on April 16. "Some hospitals are being targeted by the warring parties," reports Dr. Ghazali Babiker, country director for the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières in Sudan.

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  • Global Health

'I am hearing anti-aircraft fire,' says a doctor in Sudan as he depicts medical crisis

We spoke to Dr. Ghazali Babiker, country director for Médecins Sans Frontières in Sudan, who is in Khartoum. He offered a grim assessment of the impact of fighting on the ability to give health care.

April 18, 2023
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By:
  • Andrew Connelly

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