Tag: Sudan
ICC investigates new war crimes in Sudan
full screen Sudan’s UN ambassador listens when ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan informs at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Thursday that a new investigation into war crimes…
ICC investigates new war crimes in Sudan
He says the investigation concerns events linked to the fighting in recent months. It is about war crimes and crimes against human rights, with a focus on crimes linked to…
Over 3 million people displaced in Sudan
full screen Smoke rises over the capital Khartoum in early June. Archive image. Photo: AP/TT According to the UN migration agency IOM, the fighting in Sudan in recent months has…
diplomatic initiatives but no progress
While Sudan is sinking deeper into war every day, no diplomatic initiative has yet succeeded in breaking the cycle of violence between the army and the Rapid Support Forces. Monday,…
South Sudan celebrates its independence by pushing for peace
South Sudan celebrated the 12th anniversary of its independence, proclaimed in euphoria on July 9, 2011 after decades of civil war with the Khartoum regime. But the youngest country in…
Air raids, attacks and looting… Sudan is “on the brink of an all-out civil war”
The alert is given by the UN. This Sunday, July 9, the institution warned that Sudan was “on the verge of a total civil war potentially destabilizing for the entire…
UN: Sudan drifting into civil war – cease-fires broken again and again
Sudan’s slide into chaos brings instability to the entire region of Northeast Africa. The air strike on Omdurman has claimed the lives of at least 22 people. The struggle for…
Faced with the situation in Sudan and South Sudan, what role for the ICRC?
The Head of Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Pierre Dorbes ends his mission in mid-July in South Sudan. Arrived two years ago in this country…
where is Hemedti, the leader of the Rapid Support Forces?
The head of the rapid support forces (FSR), General Mohamed Hamdane Daglo known as Hemedti, has not appeared in public for more than 40 days. This absence, however, raises questions…
in Darfur, “the population is dying of starvation in absolute oblivion”, alarms an NGO
As fighting continues to rock Sudan, Solidarités International was the first NGO to enter West Darfur and the town of el-Geneina last week. The inhabitants of this city have paid…