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Strike on Sudan hospital kills at least 64 and wounds 89 more, WHO reports
ByAFP March 21, 2026

Victims of army drone attack on East Darfur health facility included children and medical personnel A strike on a healthcare facility in Sudan has killed 64 people and wounded 89 more, the World Health Organization reported on Saturday.The UN’s humanit…

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At least 17 killed after drone strikes school in Sudan
ByAssociated Press in Cairo March 11, 2026

Strike in Shukeiri killed teachers and health care workers and is latest incident in three-year warAt least 17 people, most of them schoolgirls, were killed on Wednesday when an explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces …

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‘Extraordinary cruelty’: images show longterm ‘starvation strategy’ in Sudan
ByKaamil Ahmed and Alex Clark March 10, 2026

Experts argue sensor and satellite data reveal targeted attacks on farming communities by the Rapid Support Forces were intended to prevent villages producing foodThere is strong evidence that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) committed a war crime by dep…

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A Trump Call Ignited Saudi-U.A.E. Feud
ByVivian Nereim February 27, 2026February 28, 2026

A request made to President Trump about the war in Sudan is at the heart of a diplomatic dispute between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

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These atrocities in Sudan were entirely predictable. So why did the rest of the world fail to stop them? | Husam Mahjoub
ByHusam Mahjoub February 20, 2026

Western governments have put elite bargains before civilian lives. If El Fasher is to mean anything, this approach must changeThe latest report from the UN independent fact-finding mission on the fall of El Fasher in Sudan reads like a postmortem of a …

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RSF siege of El Fasher in Sudan has ‘hallmarks of genocide’, UN mission finds
ByEromo Egbejule and agencies February 19, 2026

Report details harrowing 18-month occupation of North Darfur capital, showing destruction aimed at ethnic communitiesThe siege and capture of the Sudanese city of El Fasher by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group last October bore “the hallmarks…

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International humanitarian law is at risk – but it still carries weight | Kenneth Roth
ByKenneth Roth February 16, 2026

A study says IHL is at ‘critical breaking point’ amid horrendous violations in Gaza, Sudan and elsewhere. But to declare its demise would be prematureIs international humanitarian law (IHL), the law designed to spare civilians as much as possible the h…

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A rare chronicle of war, survival and devastation in Darfur – in pictures
ByPhotographs by Jérôme Tubiana February 15, 2026

Few outsiders, if any, have ventured more widely into the centre of Sudan’s brutal civil war than Jérôme Tubiana. The French humanitarian has been granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the western region of Darfur to document the heart of a…

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RSF drone attack kills 24 people fleeing fighting in central Sudan, says doctors group
ByAssociated Press February 7, 2026

Eight children including two infants among dead in vehicle carrying displaced people, says Sudan Doctors NetworkA drone attack by a paramilitary group has hit a vehicle carrying displaced families in central Sudan, killing at least 24 people, including…

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How Two Powerful U.S. Allies Came to Blows in Yemen
ByVivian Nereim January 1, 2026January 1, 2026

Tensions between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates burst into the open this week with an unusually direct confrontation that has global implications.

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