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At Least 82 People Are Dead After a Gold Mine Collapsed in Sudan's West Kordofan
The al-Zara mine is in territory held by the Rapid Support Forces, which smuggle Sudan's gold abroad to fund their war. Dozens of miners are still missing.
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WorldUN Investigators Counted Up to 2,000 Colombian Contractors Flying Drones for Sudan's RSF
A UN fact-finding mission reported Thursday that foreign recruiters, logistics firms and weapons suppliers running through Colombia and the UAE have transformed the Rapid Support Forces into a drone army. It found conduct in El-Fasher displaying what it called hallmarks of genocide.
WorldA Sudanese Army Drone Hit a Village Court Held Under a Tree in Darfur, Killing at Least 35
Civilians had gathered in Garra al-Zawaya to hear local disputes when the strike came just after midday Sunday. Among the dead were four tribal leaders, a rights group and witnesses said.
WorldEU Bans Sudanese Gold and Restricts Mercury Exports to Choke Off Civil-War Financing
European foreign ministers approved a Dutch-French initiative barring purchases of gold from Sudan and blocking exports of the mercury and cyanide used to mine it, targeting a revenue stream that has fueled more than two years of war.
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ICC Says It Now Has 'Concrete Evidence' Tying RSF Leaders to Darfur War Crimes
A deputy prosecutor describes a breakthrough in the Sudan investigation, citing witness accounts, forensic proof and video of executions and sexual violence.
WorldHuman Rights Investigators Say UAE-Trained Colombian Mercenaries Fought Alongside Sudan Force Accused of El-Fasher Massacre
Months after the Rapid Support Forces overran the Darfur city in a slaughter that the UN says bears the 'hallmarks of genocide,' new findings link hundreds of foreign contractors trained on Emirati bases to the paramilitary's campaign.
WorldWorld Powers Pledge $1.5 Billion for Sudan as War Enters Fourth Year — and Both Warring Sides Are Excluded From the Table
Germany hosted a 60-delegation Berlin conference on the three-year anniversary of Sudan's civil war, raising 1.3 billion euros in aid for a conflict that has killed 400,000 people and displaced 14 million, while the UN called it 'an abandoned crisis.'
WorldSudan's Civil War Enters Its Fourth Year: 59,000 Dead, 34 Million in Need, and a World That Chose to Look Away
Three years after fighting erupted between Sudan's military and the Rapid Support Forces on April 15, 2023, the UN calls it not a forgotten crisis but an 'abandoned' one, as famine spreads, genocide findings mount, and international aid falls critically short.
WorldSudan's Humanitarian Crisis 'Critically Underfunded' as Conflict Enters Third Year
The UN warns that Sudan's 2026 Humanitarian Response Plan is funded at just 16 percent of what is needed, with over 200 attacks on healthcare infrastructure verified and 1.6 million civilians returning to a devastated Khartoum.
WorldSudan's RSF Drones Strike Hospital During Children's Vaccination Drive, Killing 10 Including 7 Medical Staff
Two RSF drone strikes hit Al-Jabalain Hospital in White Nile State on Thursday, destroying the operating theater and maternity ward in the latest of more than 200 attacks on Sudanese healthcare facilities since 2023.
WorldWHO Confirms 64 Killed Including 13 Children in Drone Strike on Sudan Hospital
A strike on Al-Daein Teaching Hospital in East Darfur destroyed the facility's paediatric, maternity, and emergency departments and left the city without functioning emergency medical care — pushing the war's health facility death toll past 2,000.
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64 Killed Including 13 Children in Strike on Sudan's Al Daein Teaching Hospital, WHO Says
The attack on the East Darfur hospital on Friday night rendered it non-functional and brought the total death toll from attacks on Sudan's health facilities to more than 2,000 in the three-year civil war.
