5 days ago · Darfur, historical region of the Billād al-Sūdān (Arabic: “Land of the Blacks”), roughly corresponding to the westernmost portion of present-day Sudan. It lay between Kordofan to the east and Wadai to the west and extended southward to the Al-Ghazāl (Gazelle) River and northward to the Libyan Desert .

1 day ago · The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has again called for greater protection of civilians in war-torn Sudan following deadly army airstrikes in North ... UNICEF noted that more than 60,000 people have been newly displaced in North Darfur in just six weeks. Their numbers add to the more than 600,000 people - including some 300,000 children ...

5 days ago · A separate conflict that remained unresolved centred on the Darfur region in western Sudan. The conflict began in 2003 when rebels launched an insurrection to protest what they contended was the Sudanese government’s disregard …

2 days ago · An airstrike by Sudan’s military ripped through a crowded market in the country’s western region of Darfur, killing at least 54 people and wounding dozens more, according to local monitoring ...

2 days ago · A Sudanese war monitor has accused the military of killing hundreds of people in an air strike on a market in the country's western Darfur region on Monday. The Emergency Lawyers group - which ...

2 days ago · CAIRO (AP) — Aid groups in Sudan said Tuesday at least 54 people were killed in a military airstrike on a local market in the country’s western region. The strike on Monday on the village of Tora caused a huge fire, according to Adam Rejal, a spokesman for the General Coordination, a local group helping displaced people in Darfur.

Dec 14, 2023 · The outbreak of conflict seven months ago in Sudan has led to “a convergence of a worsening humanitarian calamity and a catastrophic human rights crisis”, according to a senior UN official, and...

Jun 14, 2024 · Today, there are alarming signs that Darfur may be heading towards another genocide. Darfur, a region in western Sudan, has a tragic history marked by ethnic violence and humanitarian crises.

Feb 21, 2025 · Nearly two decades after ethnic violence sparked a genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, last month the United States determined that a new genocide is occurring in the war-torn country. The United States found that the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – led by Mohammad Hamdan Daglo, known as Hemedti – have “systematically ...

Sep 4, 2024 · Sudan’s catastrophe can now only be described in superlatives: it is the world’s largest humanitarian catastrophe, is home to the world’s largest displacement crisis, and the world’s ...