In a potentially decisive moment in the Sudanese Civil War, the paramilitary group RSF has claimed capturing the regional army headquarters in the besieged city of El-Fasher. The city’s capture would cement its control on the country’s western Darfur region and split the country into eastern and western halves.

Paramilitary forces' claimed capture of El-Fasher, a city in Sudan's Darfur, could mark a turning point in the country's two-year war and stoke fears the country could again be split a decade after losing South Sudan in 2011, analysts warn.

By Nafisa Eltahir (Reuters) -A Sudanese paramilitary force is battling the last pockets of resistance in a Darfur city that has endured a brutal 18-month siege and where a full takeover would entrench a geographical division of the country between rival military factions.

In a Mediterranean-like climate and using the fertile soil, they grow peanuts, oranges, apples and strawberries - rare crops for a country now facing one of the world's worst hunger crises. Before the conflict, Jebel Marra's organic oranges were particularly prized across the country for their juiciness.

Sudan's 2 million Christians face severe persecution and food shortages during the civil war, with some forced to eat animal feed and grass to survive.

A Sudanese paramilitary force has targeted the capital and main airport with drones. The attack came just a day after the first passenger flight in two years landed in the city. The Rapid

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Fighting around Sudan ‘s largest oil refinery set the sprawling complex ablaze, satellite data analyzed by The Associated Press on Saturday shows, sending thick, black polluted smoke over the country’s capital.

In the 1980s, before the country gained independence from Sudan, Machar was a senior commander in the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), a rebel movement led by the charismatic US-educated economist John Garang that fought for decades against the government of Sudan.

A Catholic bishop in the Africa’s youngest country has directed the people under his care to participate in daily prayers for peace amid testimonies of rising tension in South Sudan and reports of the arrest of the country’s first vice president, Dr ...

Nearly two-thirds of South Sudanese children surveyed aged between 5 and 17 years are engaged in the worst form of child labour, with rates soaring to as high as 90 percent in the worst-hit regions, according to a new report by the Ministry of Labour,