Reporting, analysis, vision & strategy bearing on or emanating from Sudan.
In April 2026, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a group of individuals and entities that are involved in recruiting former…
Empire has never been only a matter of colonial occupation. The United States and Britain remain the most visible architects of widescale…
In October 2025, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), one of the parties to Sudanās conflict, took over El Fasher, the capital of…
As the war in Sudan rages on, theater is being used to help survivors of violence heal invisible wounds, overcome isolation and…
The UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood recently announced an āemergency brakeā on sponsored study visas for nationals from Sudan, Afghanistan, Cameroon and…
Last November, the RSF militia committed a heinous massacre in Elfashir; thousands were killed in one day, including patients at a hospital,…
In April 2023, a war broke out in Sudan between the national army and the Rapid Support Forces militia. It is estimated…
As the war in Sudan that has unleashed the worldās worst humanitarian crisis nears a thousand days, āa cessation of hostilities, a…
Follow a line south and west from the Gaza Strip, continue through Egypt, and youāll end up in another place where a…
Sudanese paramilitary forces bombed a kindergarten and the hospital where victims were brought for treatment in southern Sudan on Thursday, killing at…
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