Humanitarian organisations operating in Sudan have warned the international community about the impending deaths and starvation in the region. The global aid groups, including the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Danish Refugee Council (DRC), and the Mercy Corps, released a joint statement on Tuesday, Sept. 3, drawing the world’s attention to the unprecedented crisis. “Sudan is […]
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Staff of international humanitarian organisations are at the receiving end of the ongoing war in Sudan. The raging feud between two Sudan’s warlords, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, has claimed the lives of several aid workers, especially in Khartoum, the country’s capital. Dr Khalid, a health manager at Save the Children, an international […]
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The United Nations has issued a warning that the ongoing conflict in Sudan has the potential to result in a severe humanitarian crisis, with millions of people requiring urgent assistance. According to the World Food Programme (WFP), the conflict has put an additional 2.5 million people at risk of starvation, bringing the total number of […]
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Nigerian students trying to escape from Sudan are stranded in the desert a few hours drive out of the capital Khartoum, as an agreed ceasefire slips away. Five buses filled with Nigerians studying at Sudanese universities left a muster point Wednesday afternoon, but the buses halted before they reached the Egyptian border, the students said. […]
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The people of Birao in the Vakaga division of the Central Africa Republic have expressed fear over rising food prices, following the conflict in neighbouring Sudan where most of their goods come from. Reports say municipal authorities in the region met on Thursday with traders to address the situation. Birao markets have seen an increase […]
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The people of Sudan continue to live in fear as a second ceasefire agreement between warring military factions has failed to hold. The is the second attempt in two days, leaving many wondering if an arrangement to allow evacuation of civilians in the conflict area is possible. The latest agreement was supposed to take effect […]
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There is a critical lack of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel in Sudan as the country erupts in conflict, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and its paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has killed nearly a hundred civilians and injured many others, the United Nation’s health […]
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When Mohammed Nagi Alassam enrolled in medical school, it would have been hard to imagine him as one of the faces of a revolution that would years later, change the course of his country. Sudan has huddled under the boots of dictators for many years. Backed by Islamists, in 1989, Omar al-Bashir, then a 45-year-old […]
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An employee of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international medical humanitarian organisation, has been killed in South Sudan owing to an outburst of inter-community violence in Pieri, an administrative division in the northeastern region where it runs a Primary Health Centre. MSF confirmed the incident in a statement released on Tuesday. The organisation, also known […]
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