December 23, Nairobi — Hundreds of families have been displaced from the White Nile State, after flooding completely submerged their towns and homes. The flooding comes after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) seized the Jebel Aulia Dam, around 40km from Sudan’s capital Khartoum. The dam regulates the flow of theContinue Reading
November 25, Nairobi — Sudan’s gold exports generated $1.5 billion in revenue in the first ten months of 2024. Since the war began in April 2023, gold has become a critical source of income for Sudan. Mohamed Taher Omer, director of the Sudanese Mineral Resources Company, the government body overseeingContinue Reading
August 27, Port Sudan — On Monday, surging waters burst through a dam, wiping out at least 20 villages and killing at least 30 people in eastern Sudan, the United Nations said on Monday. Many are unaccounted for and stuck in villages in the mountains without food or medicine, localContinue 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
El Fasher — Heavy rains have destroyed 210 houses in Fata Borno IDP camp and 200 in Kassab IDP camp inside Kutum, North Darfur state, according to a statement from the General Coordination for Displaced Persons and Refugees. “The displaced people (IDPs) are currently living in difficult humanitarian conditions withoutContinue Reading
Port Sudan — On Saturday, Sudan’s Minister of Health, Haitham Mohamed Ibrahim said that the increase in mineral deposits led to the spread of diseases and environmental destruction in mining areas. Speaking to the Sudan News Agency (SUNA), he said that recent landslides in Abu Hamad resulted in the deathContinue Reading
On Thursday, the Technical Emergency Committee of the Sudan’s Ministry of Health announced the death of 31 people due to floods and rains that hit the Northern state over the past days. 179 were injured and 155 people were stung by scorpions. The health ministry confirmed that the rains andContinue Reading
Hawa Haroun Al-Hajj, who lives in Zamzam camp, doesn’t know how to get food for her five daughters. She ran out of supplies in the absence of humanitarian aid. Her daughters, including the youngest who is seven years old, have started begging in the markets to stay alive. The ZamzamContinue Reading
The city of Kadugli, the provincial capital of South Kordofan State, is going through a severe food crisis, triggered by the ongoing war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Facing famine, many families have started to depend on the tree leaves of the “Kol Wam Baji”Continue Reading
Al-Geneina, August 5(Darfur24)The head of the civil administration in West Darfur, Tijani Al-Tahir Karshom, announced that the state capital, Al-Geneina, is a disaster city and a disaster area due to the floods and torrents that led to the collapse of 7,000 houses. The heavy rains that Al-GeneinaContinue Reading