August 23, Al Daein — South Sudanese women refugees in a camp in Abu Karinka, East Darfur were subjected to repeated sexual assault by gunmen. Armed men forced the refugees to leave the camp, but local community leaders intervened and returned them. Thousands of refugees from South Sudan in theContinue Reading
August 22, Port Sudan — A meeting between Sudan and the U.S. on implementing the Jeddah Agreement have been postponed. The talks were scheduled for Wednesday in Cairo and to be mediated by Egypt. They were intended to discuss the implementation of the Jeddah Agreement, a humanitarian ceasefire deal thatContinue Reading
August 22, Al-Koma — On Wednesday, a woman and her four children were killed by Sudanese army fighters launched airstrikes on the town of Al-Koma, 75 km from El Fasher in North Darfur state. The children and their mother had been admitted to the clinic with varying injuries and immediatelyContinue Reading
August 22, Adre — Hunger is killing Sudanese refugees in camps in eastern Chad, the chairman of the new Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement, Mansour Arbab, said on Wednesday. More than 600,000 Sudanese refugees have fled violence and famine in Chad since the war broke out last April, according toContinue Reading
August 22, Adre — One hundred trucks loaded with food and medical supplies from UNICEF and the World Food Program have arrived at the Adre border crossing, on their way to camps for internally displaced persons in North, South and Central Darfur. On August 16, Sudan’s sovereign council announced thatContinue Reading
August 21, El Daein — Hundreds of stores in El Daein City Market and various parts of the city were looted Tuesday, as Sudanese army aircrafts struck the capital of East Darfur State, which was widely believed to be the stronghold of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Al-Hajj Muhammad, aContinue Reading
El Daein — On Tuesday, the Sudanese army launched airstrikes on several areas in Darfur, killing and wounding dozens of civilians, and destroying parts of El Daein Teaching Hospital. The airstrikes targeted the cities of Al Fashir — where four were killed — and Al Tawisha in North Darfur, inContinue Reading
Cairo — Tom Perriello, U.S. envoy to Sudan, arrived in Egypt today to hold talks on the “collective diplomatic efforts underway in Switzerland to advance humanitarian access, civilian protection, compliance with the Jeddah Declaration, and a cessation of hostilities in Sudan.” Perriello said that he was briefing U.S. Secretary ofContinue Reading
Kauda — On Monday, The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) said that 37 people had died from hunger in areas under its jurisdiction in South Kordofan and the Blue Nile. This follows their announcement on August 14 that famine had hit the Nuba mountains and New Funj areas. Jatiqa AmogoContinue Reading
Nyala — Fardous Musa was walking back from working on the farm to the IDP camp with other women. Six armed men on motorcycles in military uniforms caught up with them. The other women managed to escape, but the gunmen captured Fardous and dragged her to a nearby creekContinue Reading