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Sudan accuses the UAE of supporting genocide in West Darfur by aiding the Rapid Support Forces. Photo: Reuters/Goran Tomasevic

SA’s arms exports to UAE, a state accused of violating Genocide Convention

In 2023, South Africa sold nearly R88 million worth of arms to the United Arab Emirates, to support a paramilitary group in Sudan

Sudan accuses the UAE of supporting genocide in West Darfur by aiding the Rapid Support Forces. Photo: Reuters/Goran Tomasevic

Sudan: A poisoned palace in a violent stalemate

Despite dramatic shifts in the frontlines, neither side is anywhere near the ‘total military victory’ wanted by Sudan’s warring generals.

Representatives of Sudan’s Transitional Sovereignty Council said it had chosen to abandon the Thabo Mbeki Foundation’s inaugural African Peace and Security Dialogue in Gauteng on Sunday. (Thabo Mbeki Foundation)

Sudan’s government abandons Thabo Mbeki Foundation’s peace dialogue

The foundation hosted its inaugural Africa Peace & Security Dialogue to identify solutions to the continent’s conflicts This content is restricted to registered users and…

Smoke rises as clashes in Khartoum between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces reached boiling point in 2023.(Photo by Mahmoud Hjaj/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

‘Rebels’ should give up hope of ruling Sudan, says RSF adviser

US peace talks to end the 16-month war in the country have yielded no concrete results

Fleeing for their lives: Tayyib Mahmoud and his family from Al Fashir in Darfur in 2021 going on a bus that will take them to safety in Egypt.

Sudan civil war fuels sexual violence and humanitarian crisis

Both sides are accused of war crimes, and millions of people have been displaced and face famine in 14 areas of civil war in the country

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…

Sudan is a nation ravaged by internal strife, a battleground where the spoils are power and the currency is human suffering. Photo: Michael Kappeler/Getty Images

Critical UN fact-finding mission in Sudan hobbled

The organisation does not have the funds to address the conflict and reveal the depth of the humanitarian crisis

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

Battles erupt between Sudanese Armed Forces and SPLA

At least 19 state troops have been killed in violent clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces and members of the SPLA in embattled South Kordofan.

South Sudan brushes fear aside

South Sudan brushes fear aside

As the country prepares for independence, the positive feeling is at odds with warnings by NGOs.

Horror and uncertainty on Sudan’s stricken border

As fighting erupted on the Sudanese border, families fled as the army bombed the border town of Jau — displacing a further 31 700 people.

Kiir takes South Sudan’s economic plans to US

North and South Sudan forces battle in disputed Abyei

Armies of Sudan clashed in Abyei, the Sudan south’s People’s Liberation Army has said, two days after an agreed provisional demilitarisation accord.