What will it take to stop the conflict in Sudan?
The army says it’s retaken a key highway linking Khartoum to El-Obeid.

The army says it’s retaken a key highway linking Khartoum to El-Obeid.






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Sudan faces a population shift as conflict empties areas, burdens cities, and disrupts economic and social stability.
Renewed conflict and tensions in the Strait of Hormuz have slowed fertiliser shipments, worsening hunger in Sudan.
Port Sudan trial of paramilitary leaders centres on atrocities in West Darfur.
Years of conflict have left thousands of Sudanese students struggling to continue their education in exile.

Sudan’s El Obeid faces intensifying RSF drone attacks
UN Fact-Finding Mission found that the paramilitary’s systematic campaign of violence in Darfur amounted to genocide.
Malik Agar Ayyir has proposed a national dialogue to end the civil war and steer Sudan towards democratic civilian rule.
The legal norm has been manipulated and forgotten. But today it is needed more than ever
How fighting for el-Obeid could shape both Sudan’s war and its humanitarian crisis.
Save the Children says families in and around the city of el-Obeid are facing increasingly difficult conditions.