The Famine Review Committee (FRC) confirmed famine in Sudan’s Northern Darfur region due to ongoing war, setting a critical alert for the international community. It emphasizes the acuteness of the world’s largest hunger crisis, which affects more than 25.6 million people, approximately half Sudan’s population. Decades ago, even before the current conflict erupted, Sudan persistently
Tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia have escalated in recent days. Relations between the two African countries, already strained since 2011 due to Ethiopia’s construction and filling of the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile—a project Egypt views as a major threat to its water and food security—have further deteriorated. The recent downturn
In the year since civil war broke out, fighting in Sudan has left more than eight million people displaced—a number far greater than the displacement in Gaza and nearly on par with Ukraine. The war has killed and wounded more than thirteen thousand in the city of El Geneina alone, with the true cost in
The civil war in Sudan, which started in April 2023 between Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, commander in chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), and Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (better known as “Hemedti”), commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), is approaching its one-year mark. With more than thirteen thousand Sudanese lives lost and 10.7 million people
<img src="https://frontlineupdates.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2022-12-08T152159Z_712589136_RC2N1Y96XB32_RTRMADP_3_SUDAN-POLITICS-1024×683-1687782351.jpg" alt="As Sudan’s transition to democracy accelerates, reforming the security forces must be a top priority“srcset=”https://frontlineupdates.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2022-12-08T152159Z_712589136_RC2N1Y96XB32_RTRMADP_3_SUDAN-POLITICS-1024×683-1687782351-300×200.jpg 300w, https://frontlineupdates.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2022-12-08T152159Z_712589136_RC2N1Y96XB32_RTRMADP_3_SUDAN-POLITICS-1024×683-1687782351-768×512.jpg 768w, https://frontlineupdates.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2022-12-08T152159Z_712589136_RC2N1Y96XB32_RTRMADP_3_SUDAN-POLITICS-1024×683-1687782351.jpg 1024w” /> Sudan’s political factions are negotiating the formation of a new transitional government, a major step toward a civilian-led government that is long overdue nearly eighteen months after a military coup led by
