A scathing new report from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) released this week outlines a dramatic surge in rights abuses across multiple active conflict zones. The 90-page document,…
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ICJ throws out Sudan genocide case against UAE
by NWMNewsDeskby NWMNewsDeskThe International Court of Justice threw out Sudan’s case against the United Arab Emirates over alleged complicity in genocide during the brutal Sudanese civil war. Sudan had taken the UAE…
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Children are being raped as a weapon of war in Sudan: UNICEF
by NWMNewsDeskby NWMNewsDeskraped , with one-year-olds the youngest survivors of rape, according to a new report from UNICEF, the United Nations’ (UN) children’s agency. The UNICEF report, released Tuesday, said that at…
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Egypt rejects attempts to form parallel Sudanese government
by NWMNewsDeskby NWMNewsDeskEgypt rejected on Sunday attempts aimed at establishing a rival government in Sudan, warning that such moves jeopardized the “unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity” of the war-torn country. Sudan has…
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Artillery shelling and air strikes killed at least 56 people across greater Khartoum. RSF shelling killed 54 and injured 158 people at a busy market in army-controlled Omdurman, part of…
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The US on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a commander of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, accusing him of being involved in human rights abuses in West Darfur, as Washington increases…
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Sudan’s army launched an early morning offensive in the capital, Khartoum, against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in what appeared to be the army’s biggest operation since the conflict began.…
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UN Security Council considers sanctioning two generals of Sudan
by NWMNewsDeskby NWMNewsDeskA United Nations Security Council committee is considering sanctioning two generals with Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) for threatening the country’s peace, security, or stability, including through violence and…
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Dozens of people have been reported killed after a dam collapsed in northeastern Sudan, as the country deals with heavy rainfall leading to disastrous floodwaters. In a statement, the ministry…
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Sudan’s de facto leader, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, received an Iranian ambassador and sent his own to Tehran, the government said, cementing a rapprochement after an eight-year rupture. Sudan…