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Warring factions observe fragile truce as foreign governments shutter embassies and race to evacuate their diplomats and citizens
Omdurman, Sudan — It is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world, but probably the one you've heard the least about. Fueled by nearly two years of civil war, Sudan is in the grip of a man ...
The U.S. evacuated roughly 70 embassy staff in a helicopter mission over the weekend, but said it was too dangerous to remove thousands of private citizens. Why the U.S. evacuation from Sudan left ...
[40] [49] [37] [42] Fifty-seven Sudanese aid workers and 20 Indian workers were relocated from Sudan to Chad. [50] On 30 April, the Red Cross sent its first aid delivery to Sudan by air since the conflict began, ferrying eight tonnes of humanitarian cargo from Amman, Jordan to Port Sudan. [51] The World Food Programme resumed operations on 1 ...
A civil war between two major rival factions of the military government of Sudan began during Ramadan on 15 April 2023. The two opponent factions consist of 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. [24]
The same day, several aerial attacks against the RSF targets were conducted by the SAF. Users on Facebook Live and Twitter documented the Sudanese Air Force (SAF) flying above the city and striking the RSF targets. [14] On 17 April, the Sudanese government announced the closure of Sudan's airspace, initially limited solely to that of Khartoum.
Operations to cease following ‘significant decline’ in number of British nationals seeking to flee
The Sennar Offensive began with the RSF attacking the village of Jebal Moya in Sennar province.The conflict soon spread to the provincial capital of Singa, where intense fighting erupted.