Sudan Crisis

© Sudanese Army sodliers walk near armoured vehicles stationed on a street in southern Khartoum, on May 6, 2023, amid ongoing fighting against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. – Air strikes battered Sudan’s capital on May 6, as fighting entered a fourth week only hours before the warring parties are to meet in Saudi Arabia for their first direct talks. (Photo by – / AFP)

lip-service

Sudan: What’s wrong with the US-Saudi-mediated talks in Jeddah?

Over the weekend, US-Saudi mediated talks took place in the city of Jeddah to find a way to stop the war from escalating in Sudan. The initiative, whi...

© Smoke billows during fighting in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, on May 3, 2023. (Photo by – / AFP)

air strikes and explosions

Sudan: Warning of ‘protracted’ conflict as fighting rages Air strikes and gunfire rocked Sudan’s capital on Friday as fighting showed no signs of abating, despite the threat of renewed US sanctions and mounti...
© Sudanese women visiting the pyramids of the kushite rulers at Meroe, Northern State, Meroe, Sudan.

looting and vandalism

Sudan’s museums, and millenia of heritage, caught in the crossfire Home to 200 pyramids (almost twice the number of Egypt) and to the legendary kingdom of Kush, a land of several ethnicities speaking more than 100 nat...
© Mohamed Hamdan Daglo “Hemeti”, on December 14, 2019. (Photo by Alex McBride / AFP)

self interest

Premium badgeEgypt’s growing concern about UAE’s support for Hemeti camp Before engaging with the Sudanese army at home, Hemeti cut his teeth against the Houthis in Yemen on Abu Dhabi’s behalf. This is a historical relation...

Sudan Crisis top stories

© Smoke billows in southern Khartoum on May 29, 2023, amid ongoing fighting between two rival generals in Sudan. A one-week ceasefire aiming to allow humanitarian aid for civilians in war-torn Sudan expires on May 29 at night, one of numerous ceasefires previously announced and immediately violated in six weeks of urban warfare which killed more than 1,800 people, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project. (Photo by AFP)

feuds abound

Premium badgeSudan: Ceasefire extension brings renewed fighting and little aid Fighting flared again in Sudan on Tuesday despite the latest ceasefire pledges of the two warring generals, meant to allow desperately needed aid to r...
© Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno received by the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Hassan Shoukry in N’Djamena, on 8 May 2023. Presidency of the Republic of Chad

diplomatic dilemma

Premium badgeConflict in Sudan: How Egypt intends to impose itself in the mediation Diplomatic initiatives are expanding around the Sudanese crisis, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is hoping to take the lead.
© Activists demonstrate in front of the White House, calling on the US to intervene to stop the fighting in Sudan, in Washington, DC, on April 29, 2023. (Photo by Daniel SLIM / AFP)

Under pressure

Premium badgeUS hints at sanctions on Burhan and Hemeti if Sudan peace talks falter The Joe Biden administration warned this week that it had a package of sanctions at the ready if talks that the US and Saudi Arabia are mediating in J...

Sudan Crisis top stories

© Smoke billows in southern Khartoum on May 29, 2023, amid ongoing fighting between two rival generals in Sudan. A one-week ceasefire aiming to allow humanitarian aid for civilians in war-torn Sudan expires on May 29 at night, one of numerous ceasefires previously announced and immediately violated in six weeks of urban warfare which killed more than 1,800 people, according to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project. (Photo by AFP)

feuds abound

Premium badgeSudan: Ceasefire extension brings renewed fighting and little aid Fighting flared again in Sudan on Tuesday despite the latest ceasefire pledges of the two warring generals, meant to allow desperately needed aid to r...
© Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno received by the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sameh Hassan Shoukry in N’Djamena, on 8 May 2023. Presidency of the Republic of Chad

diplomatic dilemma

Premium badgeConflict in Sudan: How Egypt intends to impose itself in the mediation Diplomatic initiatives are expanding around the Sudanese crisis, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is hoping to take the lead.
© Activists demonstrate in front of the White House, calling on the US to intervene to stop the fighting in Sudan, in Washington, DC, on April 29, 2023. (Photo by Daniel SLIM / AFP)

Under pressure

Premium badgeUS hints at sanctions on Burhan and Hemeti if Sudan peace talks falter The Joe Biden administration warned this week that it had a package of sanctions at the ready if talks that the US and Saudi Arabia are mediating in J...

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© A jewellery craftsman holds a piece of gold in the palm of his hand at the Sudanese capital Khartoum’s gold market in its downtown district on June 20, 2019. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

gold fever

Premium badgeSudan: Why gold and war don’t mix In 2022, Sudan’s gold exports reached almost $2.5bn, equivalent to about 42tn sold. This was good for almost 45% of national exports before the tables...
© Sudanese refugees from the Tandelti area shelter in Koufroun, Chad, near Echbara, on April 30, 2023. – The two warring Sudanese forces on April 30, 2023, announced the extension of an existing ceasefire for a further 72 hours — the latest of multiple truces that have largely been violated by both sides. (Photo by Gueipeur Denis SASSOU / AFP)

bad to worse

Sudan: UN to send envoy over ‘unprecedented’ war fallout The top United Nations humanitarian official is heading to the Sudan region due to the “rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis” in the conflict-rac...
© Nigerian students in Sudan (photo: twitter)

long wait

Nigerian officials blame ‘Logistical delays’ for failure to evacuate students from Sudan Critics of the Nigerian government are accusing officials of undue delay in evacuating nationals, especially students, out of Sudan. But the governmen...
© In this image grab taken from handout video footage released by the Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on April 23, 2023, fighters ride in the back of a technical vehicle (pickup truck mounted with a turret) in the East Nile district of greater Khartoum. (Photo by – / Rapid Support Forces (RSF) / AFP)

end of truce

Sudan: Renewed air strikes in Khartoum, violence in Darfur The Sudanese army pounded paramilitaries in the capital Khartoum with air strikes Thursday while deadly fighting flared in Darfur as the conflict ente...
© This image shows a building damaged during battles between the forces of two rival Sudanese generals in the southern part of Khartoum, on April 23, 2023. (Photo by – / AFP)

GENERALS’ WAR

Premium badgeSudan: As ceasefire falters, could the country be headed for Libyan-style partition ? The 72-hour ceasefire agreed between Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) was violated less than 24 hours after it w...
Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, in Khartoum, 2 March 2022. (© Sudanese Presidential Palace/Handout/Anadolu Agency via AFP)

changing faces

Premium badgeSudan: Hemeti’s multi-million dollar image make over Since 2019, General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo ‘Hemeti’ has undertaken significant means to reform his image as a warlord, an effort partly ruined by the a...