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Sudan’s warring sides on Friday ( May 12 ) signed an agreement and committed to protect civilians and the movement of humanitarian aid. However this is nearly a week following the US-Saudi Arabia brokered talks between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary faction rapid support forces began in Jeddah. A report from the AFP media citing a US involvement in ...

Khartoum, the Capital of Sudan, has had air strikes all over despite a truce letting civilians leave the area. The army revealed that it launched the air strikes to flush out its paramilitary rivals, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The two sides had previously said they would extend the truce by another three days to allow civilians to leave. But ...

United Nations secretary General Antonio Guterres is to send an envoy to Sudan amidst the unprecedented situation in the conflict torn country,his spokesman said on Sunday. UN emergency relief coordinator Martin Griffiths is to serve as the envoy. The UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that the envoy would travel to the region immediately. “ The scale and speed of what ...

The two warring sides in Sudan have agreed to a 72 hour ceasefire from Tuesday, 10:00PM Greenwich Mean Time according to the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinken said agreement was reached between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces after 48 hours of negotiations. An impending observation of ceasefire by the two sides is expected to leave ...

A deadly power struggle has diverted a shift to civilian rule in Sudan and has led to calls from the United Nations to stop fighting and raised fears of a winder conflict. Following the paramilitary force battling Sudanese army was branded a ‘rebel’group by the country’s army chief on Monday, it has emerged that the European Union ambassador to Sudan ...