El Fasher, April 27 (Darfur24) The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced on Sunday the distribution of 1.2 million insecticide-treated mosquito nets across North Darfur, as part of efforts to protect children and families from malaria. The campaign coincides with World Malaria Day, observed on April 25, and comes asContinue Reading
El Obeid/Dilling, April 27 (Darfur24) At least a dozen civilians were killed and many others injured on Saturday as drone strikes and artillery shelling hit residential neighborhoods in El Obeid and Dilling, in a widening pattern of attacks on urban areas in Sudan’s Kordofan region. In El Obeid, more thanContinue Reading
Nyala, April 24 (Darfur24) The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced on Thursday that a field court had sentenced Major General Al-Nour Ahmed Adam, known as “Al-Nour Al-Qubba,” to death in absentia, after stripping him of his rank and dismissing him from service over serious military charges. According to the ruling,Continue Reading
Kadugli, April 24 (Darfur24) At least 11 tuberculosis patients have died in Kadugli, the capital of South Kordofan State, during the first quarter of this year, amid a near-total collapse of healthcare services and the prolonged closure of the city’s specialized TB unit, medical sources told Darfur24. A medical sourceContinue Reading
Al-Farshaya/Sarf Umra, April 24 (Darfur24) Civilians were killed and injured in a series of drone strikes and armed attacks across South Kordofan and North Darfur, as violence continues to escalate in conflict-affected areas of western Sudan. In South Kordofan, two women were killed on Thursday in a drone strike believedContinue Reading
Nairobi, April 24 (Darfur24) The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander, Lieutenant General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as “Hemedti,” has ordered the suspension of a committee investigating conditions at Daqris prison in Nyala, South Darfur, amid allegations of detainees being released in exchange for money, multiple sources told Darfur24. Sources saidContinue Reading
Kordofan, April 24 (Darfur24) Approximately 115 people from Al-Hamra village in Bara locality, North Kordofan State, have been displaced to Omdurman in Khartoum State due to escalating insecurity, according to the International Organization for Migration’s Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) report on Thursday. DTM field teams said the displacement began onContinue Reading
Port Sudan, April 24 (Darfur24) More than 10 civilians were killed in a drone strike on the town of Um Dukhun in Central Darfur State, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said, expressing alarm over escalating violence in the region. According to OCHA, the attackContinue Reading
Special Report, April 22 (Darfur24) Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has offered a top administrative post in North Darfur to Al-Nur Al-Qubba, a former RSF commander who recently defected, according to multiple sources familiar with a meeting held in Dongola. Al-Qubba defected from the RSF last week and arrivedContinue Reading
Singo, April 23 (Darfur24) An air strike targeting the Agbesh gold mine in the town of Singo, South Darfur State, on Tuesday killed four people and injured six others, as a wave of aerial attacks continues across parts of Darfur. Local sources told Darfur24 that the strike hit a marketContinue Reading