August 25, El Daein — On Sunday, a Sudanese army warplane launched an airstrike on the city of El Daein, capital of East Darfur State. This was the second airstrike of its kind in the city in less than a week. Eyewitnesses told Darfur24 that an Antonov aircraft dropped threeContinue Reading
August 23, Ghabish — Senior Rapid Support Forces (RSF) commander, Brigadier General Faiz Hamid, was killed in fighting in Ghabish town in West Kordofan on Thursday, a source told Darfur24. The clash between the Central Reserve Forces, who were fighting alongside the Sudanese army, and the RSF allegedly lasted sixContinue Reading
August 23, El Fasher — Famine is looming in El Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur State. The city, considered the stronghold of the Sudanese army in Darfur, has been under Rapid Support Forces (RSF) siege since last May. Saddam Ishaq, an El Fasher resident, told Darfur24 that theContinue Reading
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