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An alleged senior commander of the Sudanese Janjaweed militia, Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahma—also known as "Ali Kushayb"—has been charged with 31 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. According to Human Rights Watch, "the mass rape...

The United Nations Humans Rights Council on Wednesday adopted a resolution that opens a probe into the humanitarian situation in Sudan where the army and a paramilitary group have been fighting for the last six months. "This resolution is a call to action for what we all agree are the pressing...

Four Western countries floated a proposal Wednesday for the United Nations’ top human rights body to appoint a team of experts to monitor and report on abuses and rights violations in war-wracked Sudan. Britain, Germany, Norway, and the United States are leading the call for the Human Rights Council...

More than 1,200 children have died from malnutrition and diseases such as measles in refugee camps housing people displaced by the ongoing conflict in Sudan, the UN said on Tuesday. The figure refers to children under the age of five who had been living in camps in the White Nile state, just south...

The United States imposed sanctions Wednesday on Sudanese paramilitary commander Abdel-Rahim Hamdan Dagalo for acts of violence and human rights abuses committed by his troops in their monthslong conflict with Sudan’s army. The U.S. Treasury said in a statement that it had sanctioned Abdel-Rahim—a...

The former CEO and the former chairman of a Swedish oil firm went on trial in Sweden on Tuesday, accused of complicity in war crimes in Sudan between 1999 and 2003—charges that they both flatly deny. Prosecutors say that the former Lundin Oil—which has changed its name several times and in 2022 sold...

More than 1 million people have fled Sudan to neighboring states and people inside the country are running out of food and dying due to lack of healthcare after four months of war, the UN warned on Tuesday. Fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has devastated...

Sexual violence is being committed in Sudan on a "sickening scale," while fighting in the Darfur region is reopening "old wounds of ethnic tension" that could engulf the country, United Nations officials told the Security Council on Wednesday. "The alarming accounts of sexual violence that are heard...

Both the Sudanese armed forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), locked in a vicious conflict since mid-April, have committed extensive war crimes, London-based Amnesty International said in its latest report on Thursday. The report listed crimes ranged from sexual violence against...

Authorities are seeking to re-arrest key Sudanese Islamist leaders who broke out of prison in the early days of the war in Sudan, as opponents warn of their moves to regain power, according to warrants seen by Reuters. The more than three-month war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support...