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    News in-depthSudan
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  • Monday, 3 November, 2025
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    Desperate Sudanese civilians receive food after fleeing El Fasher
  • Saturday, 1 November, 2025
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    Jihadis encircle Mali’s capital as they close in on power

    Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists tighten blockade around Bamako as military regime reels

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  • Friday, 31 October, 2025
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    Paramilitary forces’ takeover of El Fasher after 18-month siege marks a new chapter in country’s ruinous civil war

    RSF fighters holding weapons and making victory signs in front of a damaged building in El-Fasher, Sudan. Smoke rises in the background.
  • Wednesday, 29 October, 2025
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    People gather around makeshift shelters at a camp for displaced families, with belongings and water containers scattered on the ground.
  • Monday, 27 October, 2025
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    A montage showing Omar al-Bashir speaking to troops, above the BNP Paribas building and logo.
  • Sunday, 26 October, 2025
    Sudan
    Sudan army base in besieged El Fasher falls to rival militia

    Paramilitary RSF took control after 19-month siege in which thousands died of starvation and massacres

    Two Sudanese RSF soldiers in camouflage uniforms sit with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades visible in front of them.
  • Monday, 20 October, 2025
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    The BNP Paribas bank branch in Monaco is partially visible behind large tropical plants and a tree trunk.
  • Sunday, 19 October, 2025
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    Authorities have linked fake stories to accounts in nearby countries run by Russia-aligned military juntas

    A billboard in Abidjan says ‘fake news divides, truth unites’
  • Friday, 17 October, 2025
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    ‘Bellwether’ verdict may set stage for potentially far more damages as thousands of victims assert claims

    Sudan’s deposed military ruler Omar al-Bashir looks on from a defendant’s cage during the opening of his 2019 trial on corruption charges in Khartoum
  • Friday, 10 October, 2025
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    Attacks on El Fasher have intensified since mooted aid deal last month

    A health worker measures the upper arm circumference of a young child as part of a malnutrition screening at a WFP camp.
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    Aerial view of the Port of Fujairah showing docks, industrial infrastructure, and ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
  • Friday, 26 September, 2025
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    Trump envoy Boulos says deal to break Sudan siege imminent

    US Africa adviser tells FT that paramilitary forces will allow aid into El Fasher, where thousands face starvation and death

    Women in colourful dresses stand in line for aid at Gendrassa refugee camp, with a young boy seated nearby on the ground.
  • Thursday, 11 September, 2025
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    Bank’s lawyer responds that it ‘isn’t to blame’ as class action by Sudanese refugees kicks off in New York courtroom

    Omar al-Bashir addresses parliament in the capital Khartoum in 2019, standing at a podium, with seated attendees in the background.
  • Wednesday, 10 September, 2025
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    Complaint to UN Security Council claims Abu Dhabi used security groups to contract former Colombian soldiers

    Two Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces in camouflage uniforms and armed with rifles sit behind a row of rockets.
  • Monday, 8 September, 2025
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    Ethiopia celebrates opening of giant hydropower project while Sudan and Egypt warn of threat to water security

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  • Saturday, 30 August, 2025
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    ‘We watch the graveyards from space’: satellites track Sudanese city under siege

    Paramilitary forces have cut off El Fasher, the military government’s final stronghold in the western Darfur region

  • Monday, 25 August, 2025
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    Global famine deaths rise as leaders use food as a weapon

    After decades of decline, the number of people dying from hunger is increasing as starvation spreads from Sudan to Gaza

    Left; People who fled the Zamzam camp for the internally displaced after it fell under RSF control, queue for food rations in a makeshift encampment in an open field near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region on April 13, 2025. Right; Palestinian children line up to receive a hot meal at a food distribution point in Nuseirat on June 30, 2025
  • Tuesday, 29 July, 2025
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    Trump turns peacekeeping efforts to Sudan as Ukraine and Gaza talks stall

    US set to host talks in Washington after mixed results ending conflicts elsewhere

    The aid packages are being distributed from the back of a truck
  • Sunday, 13 July, 2025
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    How mining companies are adapting to newly assertive African states

    Global race for critical minerals has emboldened countries to demand more control of their resources

    A miner operates equipment used for drilling down into the rock face at the Loulo-Gounkoto gold mine in Mali
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
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    Documentary looks back to the celebratory days of Sudan’s 2019 revolution, and the aftermath

    Three women sit together, smiling; one is talking animatedly
  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    Sudan
    Record prices fuel surge in Sudan conflict gold smuggling

    Much of the precious metal is transported through the UAE and used to finance warring parties

    A gold bar displayed at a gold laboratory in Port Sudan, Sudan, on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, centre, members of Sudan’s armed forces take part in a military parade on August 14, 2024, left
  • Monday, 16 June, 2025
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    Court appoints administrators to reopen shuttered mine against Canadian owner’s wishes

    A truck carrying gold-bearing rock ore at the Loulo-Gounkoto mine complex in Mali
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  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
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    Anger over democratic dysfunction and western meddling has fuelled global support for Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré

    Background, supporters of Burkina Faso’s strongman Captain Ibrahim Traore hold placards during a rally in support of Traore at Place de la Nation Ouagadougou on April 30, 2025; foreground, Traore
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