Anne Soy Deputy Africa editor BBC Aged just 19, Alawia Babiker Ahmed miscarried as she was fleeing on foot the devastating war that has ravaged Sudan’s western region of Darfur. “I was bleeding on the way,” she told the BBC, before hastening to add that she saw people who were “worse off” during her traumatic...
United Nations trucks carrying aid for the war-torn Sudanese region of North Darfur have been attacked, with initial reports of “multiple casualties”, a spokesperson for the organisation has said. The Sudanese government said “guards, drivers and civilians” had been killed in the assault, which it blamed on the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group...
More than 100 civilians, among them at least 20 children and a medical team working for a humanitarian charity, have been killed in a series of attacks beginning on Friday in Sudan’s western Darfur region, the UN has said. The assaults – on the city of el Fasher and two nearby camps housing people forced...