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The civil war that has been devastating the African country for almost a year has produced the largest number of internally displaced individuals in the world and a famine emergency affecting five million people. It also looms as a regional conflict

Thirteen years of war has left 90% of Syria’s population below the poverty line. The U.N. World Food Program ended its main assistance program in January

About 40% of the country is experiencing severe hunger, with seven million people at risk of starvation

Special forces sent by Kyiv are conducting operations in the African country against rebel militias backed by Wagner mercenaries

U.N. warns that Europe may have to deal with a rise in the numbers of Sudanese refugees if a cease-fire agreement isn’t signed soon between Sudan’s warring sides

A Doctors Without Borders report warns of a huge shortfall in meeting the global need caused by armed conflict and climate change

Gaza, Sudan, Somalia, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Pakistan… The list of conflicts and crises has never been longer or more dire. In the Gaza Strip, at least 5,000 children have been killed in just two months, with thousands more left orphaned and over 3,500 women and children still missing under the rubble, according to the U.N.

The Ministry of Health confirms a positive case in the Renk Transit Center, located in the north of the country, where thousands of displaced people are living shoulder to shoulder

Sudanese higher education students – who have been forced to flee their homes due to violence – now live in poor conditions as displaced people, without any certainty about their education and their future

Dominique Hyde, the U.N. Refugee Agency’s director of foreign relations, says the humanitarian crisis resulting from the war in Sudan is the worst she’s seen in three decades

The fighting that broke out in April, added to previous violence, especially in the Darfur region, has forced over seven million people to flee their homes

Monday’s talks between Burhan and Isaias will focus on bilateral relations and the conflict in Sudan

Global food security is already under threat since Russia halted an agreement allowing Ukraine to export wheat and the El Nino weather phenomenon hampers rice production

The head of the Russian paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been meeting with representatives from Mali, the Central African Republic and Niger. The United States, meanwhile, is attempting to block the Wagner Group from profiting from African mines

The report says that some of the sexual assault victims were held in conditions “amounting sexual slavery,” mostly in the capital, Khartoum, and the western region of Darfur

The U.N. Human Rights Office said on Thursday that the bodies of the 87 people were dumped in a grave near the Darfur city of Geinin

The assault was one of the deadliest in urban areas in the capital and elsewhere in Sudan since fighting began

The conflict-plagued western region of Sudan is, once again, the scene of numerous atrocities. While fighting between the Army and paramilitary forces continues in the capital of Khartoum, violence is also spreading to other parts of the African country

The Mycetoma Research Center in Khartoum, the only institution that specializes in this forgotten disease, has suspended its activities. Thousands of patients now lack treatment

Sudan descended into conflict in mid-April after months of worsening tensions exploded into open fighting between rival generals seeking to control the African nation

The organization’s emergency aid program launched after the war broke out on April 15 has received less than 17% of the required $3 billion in aid

The attack was one of the deadliest of the clashes in urban areas of the city and elsewhere in Sudan between the military and a powerful paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces

The FAO deputy director and regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean analyzes the perfect storm of conflict, climate, post-pandemic inflation, and inequality that is driving world hunger

Of the more than 200,000 Sudanese who have fled violence in their country, almost half went to Egypt where millions already live, leading to heightened tension