Sudan Drones and Civil Conflictactive

Sudan's military repels a series of offensives by the RSF paramilitary in a strategically significant region.

The war in Sudan has left over 8 million children out of school, and nearly three-quarters of schools have been affected.

The UN says drone attacks have become the leading cause of death in Sudan, accounting for 80% of civilian casualties during the first four months of 2026. Sudan plunged into all-out war in April 2023, between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese military, leaving at least 59,000 people killed, according to Armed Conflict Location & Event Data, a conflict monitoring group. Aid groups say the figure is an undercount and the true number could be many times higher.

A Sudanese rights group reported that the Sudanese army (SAF) struck a traditional court in a Rapid Support Forces-held village in North Darfur with drones on Sunday, killing 35 people.

The Sudanese army struck a traditional court in a Rapid Support Forces-held village in North Darfur with drones on Sunday, killing 35 people, a rights group said. Emergency Lawyers said the attack hit Garra al-Zawaya as civilians gathered for local court hearings, wounding several others during the afternoon strike.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the ongoing war between army chief al-Burhan and RSF commander Dagalo.

Sudan’s RSF released a video of leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, telling his forces to seize Khartoum.

The UN experts found reliable the estimate that from 1,500 to 2,000 Colombian mercenaries fought on the side of the Sudanese rebel movement Rapid Support Forces

Capture of Al Sadarat highway will help the Sudanese army block the RSF's push to seize el-Obeid in North Kordofan.

The NGO released a report on Wednesday that depicted a systemic pattern of abuse within El Salvador's notorious maximum security prisons. At least 470 people have died in detention, many showing signs of physical violence and medical negligence.

The conference in Brussels was attended by Palestinian representatives. The EU's top diplomat said the bloc's support depends on reforms in the Palestinian Authority.

EU foreign ministers have imposed a ban on Sudan’s gold trade in the bloc’s latest sanctions – as it seeks to block one of the main sources of funding for the central African country’s three-year civil war. The ban on the purchase, import or transfer of gold originating in Sudan, which was announced in a statement on Monday (13 July) ahead of a meeting of foreign ministers in Brussels the same day, also bans the sale, supply, transfer or export of mercury and cyanide to Sudan on the grounds that these chemicals are widely used for gold mining or gold exploitation. Illicit gold smuggling has been one of the main sources of financing for the civil war, which started in April 2023. “By restricting trade in Sudanese gold and limiting access to chemicals used for gold mining and gold exploitation, the EU aims to reduce the resources available to those responsible for perpetuating the violence,” ministers said in a statement. In particular, the Rapid Support Forces, which now controls most of north and western Sudan, has been accused of funnelling billions of dollars worth of gold to the United Arab Emirates and Kenya to pay for weapons and mercenaries. Read more EU awarded me the Sakharov prize – now I’m demanding they stop their trade deal with UAE for funding war crimes in Sudan However, the sanctions regime does not include new measures against the RSF despite MEPs backing a resolution in the European Parliament last week urging the bloc to add the RSF to its list of terrorist organisations. Earlier this year, a report by a United Nations expert group said that atrocities committed by the RSF during its 18-month siege of El Fasher, the main city in Darfur, bore “the hallmarks of genocide”, a phrase which SAF leaders and Khartoum’s diplomats have repeated ever since to pressure the international community to increase sanctions against the RSF. The parliament also condemned the UAE for its role as the main sponsor of the RSF. The resolution was passed by a 476 to 28 margin on 9 July. MEPs also accused the Global Security Services Group, an Abu Dhabi-based group, which has ties to the UAE ruling family and senior officials, of violating the United Nations arms embargo in the western Darfur region. Read more Why isn’t the EU calling out the UAE for its role in the Sudan crisis? The resolution marked the first time that MEPs have specifically called out the UAE over its role in the war. Civil society groups have previously complained that major lobbying efforts in the EU parliament by Abu Dhabi have been successful in watering down criticism of its role in the civil war. The civil war appears to be increasingly intractable. Though the Sudan Armed Forces, which supports the government backed by the international community, controls the capital Khartoum and Port Sudan, the RSF declared a parallel administration last year and the country is in a state of de facto partition.

UN Fact-Finding Mission found that the paramilitary's systematic campaign of violence in Darfur amounted to genocide.

In 2019, the Sudanese regime locked me in prison – again – for fighting for justice for the victims of atrocities in Sudan. It was the voice of the European Parliament, alongside international pressure, that helped me get my freedom back. Before that, the same parliament had honoured me with the Sakharov Prize. It is with the deepest gratitude for all this support that I am reaching out to all MEPs today. I have walked your corridors, spoken to your committees, and believed in Europe’s commitment to ending Sudan’s conflict. However, while on Thursday (9 July) the European Parliament passes much-welcomed texts condemning the ongoing slaughter in my homeland, the European Union is simultaneously engaging in closed-door negotiations for a trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Yes, the same UAE that is fueling the war in Sudan. Investigative journalism, human rights organisations, and the UN’s own panel of experts have provided overwhelming evidence: the UAE is fueling this war. It is funding, arming, and providing logistical support to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Recent EUobserver reports even expose how foreign mercenaries are trained in Libya with the UAE’s weapons before being deployed to slaughter Sudanese civilians. Read more Why isn’t the EU calling out the UAE for its role in the Sudan crisis? As a Sudanese and a lawyer who has spent his life defending human rights, I know a painful truth: unfortunately, resolutions do not stop bullets. I …

According to the Sudan Tribune news portal, Khartoum is moving to an "alternative economy" strategy, which involves the diversification of trade and economic ties, the development of alternative banking mechanisms and the use of national currencies in trade settlements

The deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 500 people, the UN health agency's figures showed Monday. Healthcare workers in Ituri province, the heart of the outbreak, on Sunday issued a 24-hour notice threatening to strike if the government did not improve their working conditions and pay them promised benefits.

26 cases added to the tally during the past day

In tonight's edition, Ebola is spreading beyond its original hotspot in the DRC as a new case has been detected nearly 600 kilometers away. And another human rights catastrophe is unfolding in Sudan around the besieged city of al-Obeid, the UN says.

William Hilderbrandt is pleased to welcome Mateo Jaramillo Ortega, ICRC Regional Spokesperson for Eastern Africa. He asserts that '"civilian suffering in Sudan is not inevitable: much of the harm over the past three years, since the beginning of combat in Khartoum, and nowadays in al-Obeid, could have been prevented had the laws of war, and international humanitarian law, been respected."

As summary executions, abductions, torture and sexual violence plague el-Obeid, Sudan, the UN's human rights chief said the world must take action to stop preventable atrocities.

Another human rights catastrophe is unfolding in Sudan around the besieged city of al-Obeid, the United Nations human rights chief said on Friday, warning of a pattern of ​atrocities and urging ‌the world to act. Al-Obeid is the capital of North Kordofan state, a ⁠focus of recent fighting in a war between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that began more than three years ago and has caused a ‌vast humanitarian crisis.

Amnesty International says Sudan's Rapid Support Forces militia committed ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity in its assault on the city of el-Fasher amid the longrunning civil war with Sudan's military.

Report accuses paramilitary force of crimes including ethnic cleansing in systemic campaign against civilians The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during its seizure of El Fasher last year, Amnesty International has alleged. Many of the crimes, including murder, torture, rape, enslavement and sexual slavery, were carried out as part of a widespread and systematic attack against civilians and amounted to crimes against humanity, the human rights organisation said in a report released on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing while deliberately targeting children during their campaign to seize El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur state, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

The battle for el-Obeid exposes the foreign arms and polarized narratives stalling peace in Sudan’s grinding war.

The city is at risk of an 'imminent ground offensive' by the RSF paramilitary and its allies, 38 NGOs warn.

As Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces mass around the strategic city of el-Obeid, fears are growing of atrocities similar to those seen in Darfur's el-Fasher. Could sanctions still prevent bloodshed?

Seven European countries have called on Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to immediately stop their assault on El-Obeid, a city in Sudan's North Kordofan state, warning of credible signs that a major offensive could be imminent as civilians face worsening shortages of food, water and fuel.

In Sudan, NGOs and the UN have warned of an "imminent risk of mass atrocities" in El-Obeid, a major city in North Kordofan. This comes as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) step up their campaign against the regular army in the region.

The United Nations Security Council has called on the paramilitary RSF in Sudan to not launch an attack on the city of El-Obeid.

In late November 2024, the Joint Force of armed groups from Darfur, allied with Sudan’s regular army in the country’s civil war, released a video showing several of its members at a point in the desert that connects to Libya, examining a series of identification cards they had just found after ambushing an enemy convoy. Seguir leyendo

Human rights organizations accuse the UAE of supporting the RSF militia, which has seen a number of high-profile defections to the Sudanese Armed Forces. Meanwhile, the civilian population continues to suffer.

Drone strikes blamed on the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have killed at least 23 civilians and wounded 19 others in the Sudanese city of El-Obeid, local monitoring groups have said, as the use of armed drones continues to spread across the country in its more than three-year war.

Human Rights Watch warns that a company from the United Arab Emirates transported Colombian citizens to military bases in that country.

The U. N. documented 880 deaths from strikes carried out by Sudan’s military or its paramilitary enemy, the Rapid Support Forces, between January and April.

Most of the civilian deaths attributed to drone strikes in the first three months of the year were recorded in the Kordofan region and Darfur, although the strikes were also increasingly spreading beyond both regions.

Sudan’s armed forces blamed a drone attack ⁠on Monday that targeted Khartoum airport on the United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia, the latest in a barrage of assaults in recent days that has shattered months of relative calm in Sudan’s capital, three years into its civil war. Reuters could not independently verify the claims. Neither country immediately commented on the allegations made late on Monday. Sudan has often accused the UAE of supporting Rapid Support ‌Forces (RSF) paramilitaries, a charge...

Some Sudanese child soldiers have social media accounts are celebrated by millions of followers. Psychologists and other experts warn this is a dangerous trend.

The attack, the second in a week, follows months of relative calm in the city after government forces regained control.

The widespread use of rape and other sexual violence as a weapon of war in Sudan has spurred a massive mental health crisis, United Nations agencies and local aid groups warned. The Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been locked in a brutal conflict since April 2023 that has killed tens of thousands and displaced around 11 million people. Medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières last month said at least 3,396 survivors of sexual violence – nearly all of them women...

The atrocities committed in the city of El-Fasher have been classified as war crimes and crimes against humanity by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. The new report asserts that Colombian mercenaries were involved in these events.

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Rebel fighters are targeting the country’s rich cultural history and selling valuable artifacts to the highest bidder in the illicit international art market.

Rebel fighters are targeting the country’s rich cultural history and selling valuable artifacts to the highest bidder in the illicit international art market.

The Conflict Insights Group (CIG) says its research also shows the extent of UAE involvement.

Sudan is entering its fourth year of civil war between the army and the Rapid Support Forces, a conflict the UN calls the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with children among the main victims. In Darfur and beyond, thousands are displaced, many separated from their families, facing hunger, violence and deep trauma despite overwhelmed aid efforts.

Sudan has entered its fourth year of devastating conflict, after fighting broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The war has left millions displaced and, according to the UN, created the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.

Hajj Kater, a Sudanese activist from El Fasher — the capital of North Darfur — recently reunited with his old friend Ali at the hospital in Tiné, a town on the Sudanese-Chadian border. His former classmate was receiving treatment for injuries sustained when fighters who were apparently affiliated with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) forcibly seized his village, Shartiba, in mid-March. Seguir leyendo

Sudan has condemned a Berlin donor conference as “surprising and unacceptable” interference as the war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces enters its fourth year. Millions of people remain displaced, with widespread hunger and escalating attacks deepening the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.

The war in Sudan is entering its fourth year with international attention focused on other conflicts. The conference in Berlin is aiming to bring back some attention to help fund urgent projects.

Sudan’s government on Wednesday slammed a donor conference hosted by Germany as “surprising and unacceptable”, saying the event meddles in the country’s internal affairs and was organised without consulting Khartoum. The conference is being held as the brutal war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) enters its fourth year.

One struck a market in North Darfur and the other hit a truck carrying civilians in North Kordofan as the country’s civil war approaches its fourth year At least 28 civilians have been killed in two separate drone strikes in Sudan, according to health workers, as the country’s brutal civil war between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces approaches its fourth year. A strike hit a market in the town of Saraf Omra in North Darfur state on Wednesday, killing “22 people, including an infant, and injuring 17 more”, a health worker at the local clinic told AFP. Continue reading...