At least 64 people were killed, including at least 13 children, in a strike on a hospital in Sudan’s western Darfur region last week, the World Health Organization said Saturday.
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At least 6,000 killed over 3 days during RSF attack on Sudan’s el-Fasher, UN says
More than 6,000 people were killed in over three days when a Sudanese paramilitary group unleashed “a wave of intense violence” in Sudan’s Darfur region in late October, according to the UN.
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A radio station in Amsterdam is a lifeline for Sudan. After USAID cuts, it’s faltering
Budget cuts threaten the future of Amsterdam-based Radio Dabanga, which has served as an information lifeline for Sudanese people about their war-torn country.
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UN humanitarian chief: world needs to ‘wake up’ and help stop violence in Sudan
The UN’s top humanitarian and emergency relief official has told NPR that the lack of attention from world leaders to the war in Sudan is the “billion dollar question”.
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Doctor in Sudan wins $1 million prize for his extraordinary courage: ‘It is my duty’
Dr. Jamal Eltaeb of Sudan has been awarded the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity. He says, “Every day we work in the impossible conditions with barely enough to keep people alive.”
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A declaration of famine is rare. It’s now happened twice in 2025, this time in Sudan
Famine declarations are relatively rare. But the leading international authority on hunger crises this week declared that regions of war-torn Sudan face catastrophic shortages of food.
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Famine is spreading in Sudan, a global hunger authority says
The war involving the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has created the world’s largest humanitarian disaster, a leading hunger agency says. The major city of El-Fasher has been particularly hard-hit.
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They were promised a lifeline to ‘graduate’ from poverty. Then it was taken away
Thousands of South Sudanese refugees and impoverished locals in Uganda saw a brighter future with a new USAID-funded project. They’d get $205 and coaching to build a business. Then came the cuts.
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Hundreds killed in Darfur hospital massacre, ‘hero’ doctors abducted
The last hospital in Darfur’s el-Fasher has been destroyed by paramilitaries — hundreds of patients killed and doctors taken.
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As Darfur’s last city falls, fears grow ‘there will be no one left to save’
Sudan’s army has lost its last foothold of el-Fasher, in Darfur, to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Now warnings are mounting of a second genocide as mass killings unfold before the world.
