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A school in Gedarif became home to hundreds of families fleeing the war in Khartoum. Photos by Ala Kheir

Between conflict and hope: A photographer’s journey amid Sudan’s turmoil

Photographer Ala Kheir was using his camera to document the scars of Sudan’s old wars. Then came the new war.

Smoke rises as the clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continue in Khartoum, Sudan on June 09, 2023. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Resistance committees keep Sudan’s revolution alive

They ousted a dictator, defied a junta and now Sudan’s resistance committees are providing the only support to desperate people in their areas amid the war and persecution. Mark…

A demonstrator looks on from behind a flaming tyre at a make-shift barricade erected during a protest demanding civilian rule in the “Street 40” of the Sudanese capital’s twin city of Omdurman on January 4, 2022. (Photo by AFP)

Sudan civil servants go hungry as war rages

About a million desperate public sector workers have had to survive on their savings or social aid networks

The army announced Monday it was ready to “receive and prepare” volunteer fighters, after Abdel Fattah al-Burhan last week urged Sudanese “youth and all those able to defend” to join the military. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

Blasts in Khartoum as army renews call for volunteers

The army announced Monday it was ready to “receive and prepare” volunteer fighters, after Abdel Fattah al-Burhan last week urged Sudanese “youth and all those able to defend” to…

Embers: The civil war between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army has led to the deaths of at least 865 people, the displacement of thousands and the destruction of historical documents.

Sudan’s war leaves its history and culture in ashes

An Omdurman Ahlia University library filled with rare books, handwritten manuscripts and historical documents was gutted by fire

Gutted: Businesses and
homes have been torn
apart in Sudan’s capital. (Photo by Omer Erdem/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Sudan fighting hits home

First, they took away people’s dreams of democracy and peace. Now the men with guns are looting and occupying their homes

Geneina residents are struggling to survive the latest cycle of violence in West Darfur. Photo: Ayin Network/Twitter

Sudan’s Geneina is a ghost town

It took more than a week for the fighting to reach Geneina, in Sudan’s far west. The town is now a shell of its former self

Fright flight: International personnel of the United Nations Mission board the French frigate ‘Lorraine’ at Port Sudan amid a ceasefire between the country’s warring generals. (AFP/Getty Images)

What countries are doing to extract citizens from conflict-torn Sudan

Countries intensified efforts to extract their citizens as a 72-hour ceasefire took effect

Next month, the UN Security Council (UNSC) will reconvene to consider the implementation of the arms embargo it imposed on South Sudan’s territory in 2018, which expires on 31 May 2023. Photo: Supplied. Photo: AFP

Tireless Sudanese protesters take on the generals — again

In 2019 Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir was ousted after a massive wave of protests. But the generals who replaced him won’t hand over power. Now the flames of revolution are being…

No to coup: Sudanese protesters denounce overnight detentions by the army of government members on 25 October. (AFP)

Sudan coup imperils hard-won international backing

When Sudan’s military removed leader Omar al-Bashir in 2019, it started receiving aid that is now under threat

Soldiers listen as Chairman of the Sovereignty Council Gen. Abdel Fattah Abdelrahman al-Burhan speaks after the Sudanese army foiled a coup attempt in the country in Khartoum, Sudan on September 21, 2021. (Photo by Sovereignty Council of Sudan / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Why handing over ICC suspects could help Sudan’s transition

A failed coup in September, weeks of brinkmanship, and a looming crisis in eastern Sudan have laid bare tensions between civilians and military leaders

There have been previous coup attempts since Omar al-Bashir’s ouster which officials have blamed on Islamist supporters of the former president and members of his now-defunct ruling party. (Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)

Sudan government says it foiled coup attempt linked to Bashir regime

State television broadcast patriotic songs as it announced the coup attempt and urged “the people to confront it”.

Border tensions mount between Sudan, Ethiopia

Skirmishes between forces continue despite government calls for peace in a region already torn apart by ethnic conflicts

Covid-19’s second wave hits Sudan harder and faster

The pandemic has helped to expose the dire state of Sudan’s healthcare system, which lacks both equipment and medical personnel

George Floyd’s death  is a consequence of the very real threat of police brutality that follows us (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

Catholic NGO boss accused of racism and abuse in Sudan

The aid worker allegedly called his security guard a ‘slave’

The army announced Monday it was ready to “receive and prepare” volunteer fighters, after Abdel Fattah al-Burhan last week urged Sudanese “youth and all those able to defend” to join the military. (Photo by Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images)

Darfur: How historical patterns of conflict are haunting current violence

The root causes of the ongoing conflict in Darfur are rising to the surface amid an influx of arms from Libya

Immovable objects: Neither Ethiopia nor Egypt have given much away during negotiations. (Photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images)

Damming the Nile

In a few weeks, when the rainy season arrives, water will finally begin to flow into the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Expect regional tensions to rise along with the water…

Sudanese protesters gather outside the army headquarters in Khartoum on May 6, 2019. – Defiant Sudanese protesters broke their fast on the first day of Ramadan today with chicken soup and beans, vowing to press on with their campaign for a civilian rule. As the call for the evening Maghreb prayer echoed, crowds of protesters gathered at the sit-in area in central Khartoum for iftar after a day of sweltering heat, an AFP correspondent reported. (Photo by Mohamed el-Shahed / AFP)

Revolutionaries turn to healthcare

After ousting a dictator, members of Sudan’s resistance committees are now helping to fight the Covid-19 pandemic

A Sudanese aid volunteer picks up medicine inside a first aid tent during a sit-in outside the army headquarters in the capital Khartoum.(Ozan Kose/AFP)

Coronavirus reaches Sudan, one of the countries least equipped to cope with it

After years of neglect, the country’s health service was already under water. With fewer than 200 critical care beds, doctors say Covid-19 will ‘sink’ Sudan

Militias have increased in numbers and strength, and now outnumber state security forces by four to one. (Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images)

Sudan: from demonstrations to start of transition

The country’s announcement on Wednesday was historic, but it took a lot to get there