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Smoke rises over Khartoum, Sudan, in April amid fighting between the country’s military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.... Slightly more than 238, 000 people have crossed the border from Darfur into neighboring Chad, according to recent figures from the International Organization for Migration.... Amid the pillaging, entire towns and villages in the province of West Darfur have been burned to the ground....

Join our Whatsapp channel Sudan has filed a case against the United Arab Emirates at the World Court for allegedly violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention by arming the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces( RSF), the International Court of Justice( ICJ) said on Thursday. The UAE said it would seek immediate dismissal of the case, which it said lacked “ any legal or factual basis ”, an Emirati official said in a statement to Reuters. The charges are in connection with intense ethnic-

By Reuters Staff2 Min ReadKHARTOUM( Reuters)-Renewed tribal violence near the western Sudanese city of El Geneina over the past week has displaced more than 15, 000 people, the United Nations said. FILE PHOTO: Internally displaced girls ride donkeys during a sandstorm outside ZamZam IDP's camp in Al Fasher, northern Darfur April 13, 2010.... REUTERS/ Zohra Bensemra/ File Photo The war-weary Darfur region has seen an increase in violence recently, humanitarian groups say, which analysts link to

Refugees who fled the conflict in Sudan gather this month at the Zabout camp in Goz Beida, Chad.... The second was two months later when paramilitary fighters stopped her and others as they tried to reach the border with neighboring Chad.“ They massacred us like sheep, ” the 32-year-old teacher said of the attack in late April on her home city, Geneina.... Fears are mounting that that legacy is returning with reports of widespread killings, rapes and destruction of villages in Darfur amid a na

A top Sudanese general accused the UAE in November of backing the RSF war effort.In a letter to the monitors, the UAE said 122 flights had delivered humanitarian aid to Amdjarass to help Sudanese fleeing the war.... The United Nations says about 500, 000 people have fled Sudan into eastern Chad, several hundred kilometers south of Amdjarass.... The RSF did not immediately respond to a request for comment by Reuters....

N' DJAMENA, Sept 6( Reuters)-The United States is imposing sanctions on the deputy leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces( RSF) over human rights abuses, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations announced during a trip to Chad's border with Sudan on Wednesday. The move to target Abdelrahim Dagalo-brother of RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti-is the highest profile use of sanctions since conflict between the RSF and Sudan's army broke out in mid-April and an apparent r

close Video Reports say people have fled West Darfur in recent weeks amid an uptick in ethnically-driven killings by militias.... Phares is a Washington-based foreign policy expert and secretary general of the Transatlantic Parliamentary Group.... He is the author of 15 books, including" Iran and Imperialist Republic and U.S. Policy." Families escaping Ardamata in West Darfur cross into Adre, Chad, after a wave of ethnic violence, Nov....

CAIRO( Reuters)-A mother who skips meals so there is enough food for her two children.... Most spoke by phone or on Whatsapp.... Some were interviewed in Cairo, where they have sought refuge after fleeing their homes....