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This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

US announces over $47 million in humanitarian aid for war-torn Sudan

The U.S. has announced more than $47 million in humanitarian aid for war-torn Sudan and two neighboring countries, to where at least a million people have fled the nearly 1-year-old conflict.

FILE - Residents displaced from a surge of violent attacks squat on blankets and in hastily made tents in the village of Masteri in west Darfur, Sudan, on July 30, 2020. Paramilitary forces and their allied militias fighting to take power in Sudan carried out widespread ethnic killings and rapes while taking control of much of western Darfur that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a new report to the U.N. Security Council, obtained Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, by The Associated Press. (Mustafa Younes via AP, File)

Sudan is on course to become the world’s worst hunger crisis, with children already dying, UN says

This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

A paramilitary group at war with Sudan’s military endorses a cease-fire during holy fasting month

FILE - People board a truck as they leave Khartoum, Sudan, on June 19, 2023. The U.N. human rights office said in a new report Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, that scores of people, including children, have been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence in the ongoinng conflict in Sudan, assaults that may amount to war crimes. (AP Photo, File)

UN Security Council urges Sudan’s warring parties to halt hostilities during holy month of Ramadan

FILE - Residents displaced from a surge of violent attacks squat on blankets and in hastily made tents in the village of Masteri in west Darfur, Sudan, on July 30, 2020. Paramilitary forces and their allied militias fighting to take power in Sudan carried out widespread ethnic killings and rapes while taking control of much of western Darfur that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a new report to the U.N. Security Council, obtained Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, by The Associated Press. (Mustafa Younes via AP, File)

UN chief urges Sudan’s warring parties to halt hostilities during Muslim holy month of Ramadan

Overcrowded camps in Chad running out of aid as Sudanese refugees keep coming

Overcrowded refugee camps in eastern Chad are set to run out of aid, exacerbating a dire humanitarian crisis caused by the spillover from the war in Sudan, according to the United Nations. (AP video: Jsarh Ngarndey Ulrich)

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Sudan’s military regains control of TV and radio headquarters from RSF after intense fighting

Sudan’s military says it has regained control of the country’s national radio and television headquarters from a rival paramilitary group it has been battling for about a year.

FILE - Residents displaced from a surge of violent attacks squat on blankets and in hastily made tents in the village of Masteri in west Darfur, Sudan, on July 30, 2020. Paramilitary forces and their allied militias fighting to take power in Sudan carried out widespread ethnic killings and rapes while taking control of much of western Darfur that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a new report to the U.N. Security Council, obtained Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, by The Associated Press. (Mustafa Younes via AP, File)

Draft UN resolution calls for cease-fire in conflict-torn Sudan during upcoming Muslim holy month

Britain has circulated a draft U.N. resolution calling for an immediate cessation of hostilities in conflict-wracked Sudan ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins soon.

FILE - Sudanese displaced people gather at the Zam Zam refugee camp outside the town of El-Fashir in the Darfour region of Sudan, during a visit by U.N. officials, on July 1, 2004. The U.N. humanitarian aid and refugee agencies appealed Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024, for $4.1 billion in international support for embattled civilians in Sudan amid signs that some may be dying of starvation after nearly a year of war there between the forces of rival generals. (AP Photo/Karel Prinsloo, File)

Sudan’s conflict risks creating the world’s largest hunger crisis, the top UN food official warns

The top U.N. food official has warned that the ruinous conflict raging for about a year between rival generals in Sudan risks creating the world’s largest hunger crisis.

FILE - Women holding national flags and peace banners await the arrival of Pope Francis at the St. Theresa Cathedral in Juba, South Sudan on Feb. 4, 2023. As South Sudan’s plans to hold its first elections in December that should signify a major milestone in efforts to get lasting peace since the end of the civil war, mass violence and accompanying gross human rights violations continue unabated, a report by the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan says. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Violence and rights abuses threaten South Sudan’s stability, a UN report warns

A U.N. commission has warned that mass violence and gross human rights violations in South Sudan continue unabated ahead of landmark elections due to take place in December, saying the already dire humanitarian situation in the country will deteriorate further.

FILE - Residents displaced from a surge of violent attacks squat on blankets and in hastily made tents in the village of Masteri in west Darfur, Sudan, on July 30, 2020. Paramilitary forces and their allied militias fighting to take power in Sudan carried out widespread ethnic killings and rapes while taking control of much of western Darfur that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, according to a new report to the U.N. Security Council, obtained Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, by The Associated Press. (Mustafa Younes via AP, File)

UN experts: Sudan’s paramilitary forces carried out ethnic killings and rapes that may be war crimes

A new report from United Nations experts says paramilitary forces and their allied militias fighting to take power in Sudan carried out widespread ethnic killings and rapes that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

South Sudan blames fighting in neighboring Sudan and attacks in the Red Sea for its crisis

South Sudan’s government is blaming the country’s economic crisis in part on fighting in neighboring Sudan and the instability in the Red Sea, where Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been attacking international shipping.

FILE - People board a truck as they leave Khartoum, Sudan, on June 19, 2023. The U.N. human rights office said in a new report Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, that scores of people, including children, have been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence in the ongoinng conflict in Sudan, assaults that may amount to war crimes. (AP Photo, File)

Rape and sexual violence in Sudan’s ongoing conflict may amount to war crimes, a new UN report says

The U.N. human rights office says at least 118 people have been subjected to rape and other forms of sexual violence in more than 10 months of conflict in Sudan, assaults that may amount to war crimes.

Sudan’s army is investigating a video purportedly showing troops carrying severed heads

Sudan’s armed forces have ordered an investigation into a video that purportedly depicted some of its troops carrying severed heads belonging to members of a rival paramilitary faction.

FILE - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, at United Nations Headquarters. The United Nations chief on Thursday, Feb. 8, urged the international community to mobilize and do everything possible to stop the war in Sudan, saying “what is happening is horrible.” Guterres said there is no military solution to the conflict between forces supporting rival generals that began in mid-April 2023. (AP Photo/Peter K. Afriyie, File)

UN chief urges all nations to do everything possible to stop the ‘horrible’ war in Sudan

The United Nations chief is urging the international community to mobilize and do everything possible to stop the war in Sudan, saying “what is happening is horrible.”

FILE - U.N. humanitarian aid coordinator Martin Griffiths speaks in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, May 18, 2023. The U.N. humanitarian aid and refugee agencies appealed Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024 for $4.1 billion in international support for embattled civilians in Sudan amid signs that some may be dying of starvation after nearly a year of war there between the forces of rival generals. (AP Photo/Jamey Keaten, File)

UN aid chief says warring Sudan generals agreed to talk on humanitarian issues. He’s still waiting

A top U.N. official says that two generals in Sudan whose forces have been at war for the last 10 months assured him recently that they would attend a meeting in Switzerland to discuss humanitarian issues and Sudan’s beleaguered civilians.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) chief Filippo Grandi speaks to The Associated Press in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, Feb. 5, 2024. After a week visit in East Africa, listening to people whose lives have been shattered by Sudan's civil war. "Europe may soon have to deal with a flow of Sudanese migrants if a cease fire deal is not signed between the country's warring factions and relief efforts bolstered". Grandi said. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)

About 13 children die each day at a camp in Sudan for displaced people, medical charity MSF says

Thirteen children are dying everyday of severe malnutrition at the Zamzam camp in Sudan’s Northern Darfur as a consequence of the 10 month war in their country, Medical charity Doctors without Borders or MSF said Monday.

37 people killed in disputed oil-rich African region of Abyei in fighting linked to spiritual leader

An official in the disputed oil-rich African region of Abyei says 37 people were killed over the weekend in fighting apparently tied to a feud over land.

This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

UN food agency says it has reports of people dying from starvation amid the conflict in Sudan

The U.N. food agency says it has received reports of people dying from starvation in Sudan, where raging fighting between rival generals is hampering the distribution of aid and food supplies to those most hungry.

US imposes sanctions on three Sudanese companies tied to the warring parties

The United States has imposed sanctions on three Sudanese firms it accuses of being directly connected to the warring forces in Sudan.

ICC prosecutor: There are grounds to believe Sudan’s warring sides are committing crimes in Darfur

The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor says his “clear finding” is that there are grounds to believe both Sudan’s armed forces and paramilitary rivals are committing crimes in the western Darfur region during the country’s current conflict.

This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

52 killed in clashes in the disputed oil-rich African region of Abyei, an official says

A regional official says gunmen attacked villagers in the oil-rich region of Abyei claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan.

The EU sanctions 6 companies accused of trying to undermine stability in conflict-torn Sudan

The European Union has imposed sanctions on six companies it says are responsible for trying to undermine stability in conflict-ravaged Sudan, largely targeting firms linked to weapons procurement and manufacturing.

CORRECTS DATE TO JAN. 18, 2024 Uganda President, Yoweri Museveni, centre, attends the IGAD summit in State House, in Entebbe, Uganda, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) member states arrived in Uganda to discuss tension between Ethiopia, Somalia and fighting in Sudan. (AP Photo/Patrick Onen)

EU, AU, US say Sudan war and Somalia’s tension with Ethiopia threaten Horn of Africa’s stability

The African Union, European Union, United Nations and United States are calling for an immediate cease-fire and constructive dialogue between warring factions in Sudan.

Sudan suspends ties with east African bloc for inviting paramilitary leader to summit

The Sudanese government has suspended its ties with the east African regional bloc that is trying to mediate between the country’s army and a rival powerful paramilitary force.

FILE- Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo signs a power sharing document with Sudan's pro-democracy movement and the ruling military council in Khartoum, Sudan, Wednesday, July 17, 2019. Sudan’s warring generals Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, agreed to hold a face-to-face meeting as part of efforts to establish a cease-fire and initiate political talks to end the country’s devastating war, an African regional bloc said Sunday, Dec 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Hjaj, file)

Sudan paramilitary leader says he’s committed to cease-fire, but no progress on proposed peace talks

Sudanese paramilitary leader Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo says he is committed to a cease-fire to end the devastating war that has wrecked his country.

FILE - Sudanese refugees gather outside a field hospital in Acre, Chad, Aug. 15, 2023. Fighting between Sudan’s military and a notorious paramilitary group forced up to 300,000 people to flee their homes in a province that had been a safe haven for families displaced by the devastating conflict in the northeastern African country, the U.N. said Thursday. (AP Photo, File )

UN says up to 300,000 Sudanese fled their homes after a notorious group seized their safe haven

The U.N. says fighting between Sudan’s military and a notorious paramilitary group forced up to 300,000 people to flee their homes in a province that had been a safe haven for families displaced by the country’s devastating conflict.

Sudan’s conflict reaches a key city that had been a haven for many. Aid groups suspend work or flee

Sudan’s deadly conflict between a powerful paramilitary force and the army has reached a strategic city that had been a haven for hundreds of thousands of displaced people.

FILE - Sudan's Army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan speaks in Khartoum, Sudan, on Dec. 5, 2022. Sudan’s warring generals Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, agreed to hold a face-to-face meeting as part of efforts to establish a cease-fire and initiate political talks to end the country’s devastating war, an African regional bloc said Sunday, Dec 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Sudan’s generals agree to meet in effort to end their devastating war, a regional bloc says

An African regional bloc says Sudan’s warring generals have agreed to hold a face-to-face meeting as part of efforts to establish a cease-fire and initiate political talks to end the country’s devastating war.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks at the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition (USGLC)'s Tribute Celebration, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein).

US finds both sides in Sudan conflict have committed atrocities in Darfur

The Biden administration says it has determined that both sides in the ongoing conflict in Sudan have committed atrocities in the western region of Darfur.

U.S. imposes sanctions on three Sudanese figures with ties to former leader Omar al-Bashir

The United States has imposed sanctions on three Sudanese individuals accused of undermining “peace, security and stability” in the conflict-stricken African nation.

FILE - The United Nations headquarters building is seen from inside the General Assembly hall, on Sept. 21, 2021. The United Nations Security Council voted Friday, Dec. 1, 2023, to end its political mission of a few hundred people dedicated to ending the civil war in Sudan. (Eduardo Munoz/Pool Photo via AP, File)

UN ends political mission in Sudan, where world hasn’t been able to stop bloodshed

The United Nations Security Council has voted to end its political mission of a few hundred people dedicated to ending the civil war in Sudan.

FILE - Sudanese refugees gather outside a field hospital in Acre, Chad, Aug. 15, 2023. The United Nations food agency has warned that it might end food assistance to 1.4 million refugees in Chad who fled the conflict in parts of the Sahel because of limited funding. The World Food Program says most of the refugees escaped the war in Sudan and crossed into Chad in the last six months in numbers not seen in the last 20 years. (AP Photo, File )

UN warns food aid for 1.4 million refugees in Chad could end over limited funding

The United Nations food agency has warned that it might end food assistance to 1.4 million refugees in Chad who fled the conflict in parts of the Sahel because of limited funding.

US, UK and Norway urge South Sudan to pull troops from oil-rich region of Abyei amid violence

The U.S., Norway, and the U.K. are urging the government of South Sudan to withdraw its troops from the disputed region of Abyei amid violence in which at least 27 people have been killed in recent days.

This is a locator map for Sudan with its capital, Khartoum. (AP Photo)

32 killed in attacks in the Abyei region, which is disputed between Sudan and South Sudan

Heavy fighting in a disputed region claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan has killed at least 32 people, according to a regional official.

US, partners condemn growing violence in Sudan’s Darfur region

The United States, Britain and Norway are condemning rising violence and human rights abuses that some claim amount to ethnic cleansing in Sudan’s western Darfur region.