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An Emergency Response Room communal kitchen in Omdurman, Sudan, on June 2, 2024. Credit - Mazin Alrasheed—Reuters. P aradoxically, Sudan is home to both the worst humanitarian crisis in the ...
Warring factions observe fragile truce as foreign governments shutter embassies and race to evacuate their diplomats and citizens
The world’s most dangerous countries to visit in 2024 have been revealed in a new study.. South Sudan, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Somalia were named as the riskiest nations in the 2024 risk ...
A civil war between two major rival factions of the military government of Sudan, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) under Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies (collectively the Janjaweed coalition) under the Janjaweed leader Hemedti, began during Ramadan on 15 April 2023. [24]
It also said that all of Sudan's 18 states experienced displacement, with most refugees coming from Khartoum, which accounted for about 69 percent of the total number of displaced people, [65] followed by West Darfur with more than 17 percent. [66] The UN projected that the total number of refugees fleeing Sudan could reach 1.8 million people. [67]
Corruption in Sudan is substantial, as it is considered one of the most corrupt nations in the world. On the 2010 World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators, on one hundred point scale, it scored in the single digits in every category, including 0.9 for political stability, 6.2 for rule of law, 7.2 for regulatory quality, 6.7 for government effectiveness, and 4.3 for control of corruption. [1]
The U.N.’s Sudan response plan requires $2.6 billion; it is about a third funded. We, like so many Sudanese, have been forced to flee our country, leaving behind the land and people that we love.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "gravely alarmed" by reports of a full-scale assault on the Sudanese city of al-Fashir by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and ...