The Latest Breaking News from Sudan

Nearly 25 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, according to development minister Anneliese Dodds.

The ongoing war in Sudan, which started 20 months ago, has created one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises, according to the United Nations. Over 13 million people have been displaced by the conflict, and more than half of Sudan’s 45 million population is experiencing acute malnutrition, with eight…

South Sudan on Thursday rejected claims by a US-based watchdog that President Salva Kiir's family had built up a vast corporate empire in one of the world's poorest countries.

In September, amid the ongoing war in Sudan, reports began to surface of the looting of the Sudan National Museum in the capital, Khartoum. The museum is internationally celebrated for the breadth of its collection. It illustrates powerful and unique African kingdoms from the ancient and medieval past in a…

Refugees who escaped Sudan’s civil war and fled to Ethiopia have found themselves on the run from another conflict

In recent years, armed conflicts have frequently made global headlines, but media coverage has largely focused on just a few highly publicised wars. These conflicts represent only the tip of the iceberg: more than 50 countries are currently suffering from shocking levels of armed violence, many of which receive little…

In the last few years, there has been a spate of military coups in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Guinea. Military rule, long dormant in African politics, is back.

Russia's veto of U.N. resolution on Sudan's cease-fire sparks criticism, highlighting complex conflict dynamics and urgent need for international action.

David Lammy berated Russia’s first deputy permanent representative to the UN for fiddling with his mobile phone during a UN Security Council session on a joint UK-Sierra Leone draft resolution calling for a national ceasefire on Monday, 18 November.