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A Sudanese child who fled el-Fasher city with family after Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region, receives treatment at a camp in Tawila, Sudan, November 2, 2025. (Mohammed Abaker/AP)
November 3, 2025, 8:05 pm
US seeking humanitarian truce in Sudan, says announcement could come ‘soon’
African Affairs adviser says plan being hammered out between Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces is for three-month humanitarian pause followed by a nine-month political process
By AP and ToI Staff
An injured Sudanese woman who fled el-Fasher city, after Sudan's paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people in the western Darfur region, sits in a tent at a camp in Tawila, Sudan, Oct. 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Mohammed Bakry)
November 1, 2025, 2:10 pm
Germany, Jordan, UK call for immediate ceasefire in ‘apocalyptic’ Sudan war
Britain’s Cooper decries ‘mass executions, starvation and the devastating use of rape as a weapon of war’ in Darfur; Jordan’s Safadi: ‘Humanitarian crisis of inhumane proportions’
By Agencies
This image grab taken from handout video footage released on Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Telegram account on October 26, 2025, shows RSF fighters holding weapons and celebrating in the streets of El-Fasher in Sudan's Darfur (Rapid Support Forces (RSF) / AFP)
November 1, 2025, 11:13 am
UN demands probe into ‘horrific accounts’ of executions, gang rapes, abductions in Sudan
Satellite imagery analyzed by Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab shows clusters in Darfur’s El-Fasher ‘consistent with adult human bodies,’ discoloration that may indicate ‘pools of blood’
By AFP
Displaced Sudanese who fled El-Fasher after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), rest near the town of Tawila in war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region on October 28, 2025. (AFP)
October 29, 2025, 11:08 pm
Sudan’s RSF paramilitaries kill hundreds of patients at hospital in Darfur, UN says
Locals say rebel forces had ‘no mercy for anyone,’ reportedly killing some 460 patients and companions at a maternity hospital after capturing major city El-Fasher
By Samy Magdy
RSF fighters holding weapons and celebrating in the streets of El-Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region, in a screengrab of a video published on Telegram, on October 26, 2025. (Rapid Support Forces / AFP)
October 28, 2025, 5:08 pm
Sudan’s RSF accused of ethnic cleansing, killing over 2,000 after capturing key city
Researchers say paramilitary has begun summary executions and forcible displacement of indigenous non-Arab groups in El-Fasher, which was under siege for over a year and a half
By AFP
This handout image made available by the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM), on September 2, 2025, shows people inspecting the debris after a landslide devastated the village of Tarasin in Sudan's Jebel Marra area (SUDAN LIBERATION MOVEMENT/ARMY / AFP)
September 2, 2025, 12:15 pm
Over 1,000 killed in landslide on village in Sudan’s Darfur: ‘Only one person survived’
Sudan Liberation Movement-Army, the rebel group controlling the area, says village ‘completely leveled to the ground’; region is hub for displaced families fleeing fighting
By Samy Magdy
People who fled the Zamzam camp for the internally displaced after it fell under RSF control, rest 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. (AFP)
May 6, 2025, 2:47 pm
International Court of Justice throws out Sudan genocide case against UAE
ICJ says it ‘manifestly lacked’ jurisdiction to rule, points to ‘reservation’ stipulated by United Arab Emirates against countries suing each other, when it joined court in 2005
By AFP and ToI Staff
Eritrean asylum seekers volunteer at the Civilian Operations Hub, Expo Tel Aviv, October 19, 2023. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
October 26, 2023, 5:14 pm
With memories of atrocities in Africa still vivid, asylum seekers are helping Israel
‘Our country is bleeding, and we are standing with it,’ says Brhane Negasi, who experienced Islamist terror in the Sinai Desert; ‘Hamas is even worse than they were,’ he insists
By Sue Surkes
Miliatry armoured vehicle on a street in the West Darfur state capital El Geneina, amid ongoing fighting between two generals in war-torn Sudan, June 16, 2023. (AFP)
July 11, 2023, 8:58 pm
Human Rights Watch demands ICC probe into alleged recent Darfur atrocities
Dozens of non-Arab tribesmen reportedly killed by Arab Sudanese militias as violence becomes ‘increasingly ethnic’
By Samy Magdy
File: People prepare food in a neighborhood in Khartoum, Sudan, on June 16, 2023. (AP Photo)
June 19, 2023, 6:35 pm
UN urges international donors to help tackle ‘death and destruction’ in Sudan
Envoys from the Middle East and Europe meet to raise funds for country rocked by fighting, as UN says it only received 16% of needed funds since war broke out in April
By Agencies
This image grab taken from AFPTV video footage on April 28, 2023, shows an aerial view of black smoke rising over Khartoum. (AFPTV/AFP)
April 29, 2023, 2:21 pm
Khartoum airstrikes, artillery fire as Sudan fighting enters 3rd week despite truce
At least 512 people confirmed dead and 4,193 wounded, with actual numbers feared to be far higher; UN says situation in Darfur ‘alarming’
By AFP
In this June 22, 2019 file photo, Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council sits on his vehicle surrounded by soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit during a military-backed tribal rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan. (AP/Hussein Malla)
December 1, 2022, 10:36 am
Report: Ex-army officer’s spy firm sent phone hacking tools to Sudanese militia
Investigative report finds private jet linked to Tal Dilian and his Intellexa company delivered powerful surveillance equipment to notorious Rapid Support Forces
By Michael Horovitz
In this Wednesday, January 17, 2018 file photo, Eritrean migrants wear chains to mimic slaves at a demonstration against the Israeli government's plan to forcibly deport African refugees and asylum seekers from Israel to Uganda and Rwanda, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem. (AP/Oded Balilty)
September 5, 2021, 6:01 am
Offered little hope, African migrants despair of Israel as a refuge
Unable to deport asylum seekers, Israel has instead left them in limbo with few rights; the new government has signaled it has no plans to change those policies anytime soon
By Sue Surkes
In this Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011 file photo skulls of Ovaherero and Nama people are displayed during a devotion attended by representatives of the tribes from Namibia in Berlin, Germany. Germany has reached an agreement with Namibia that will see it officially recognize as genocide the colonial-era killings of tens of thousands of people and commit to spending a total of 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion), largely on development projects. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
May 29, 2021, 9:10 am
Namibia: The first in a dark century of massacres
1948 UN convention says genocide is ‘act committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group’; many massacres still not recognized
By AFP
South Sudanese refugees protest against the Israeli immigration policy on June 10 (Roni Schutzer/Flash90)
April 25, 2021, 6:37 pm
High Court orders state to consider Darfur asylum requests by end of year
Judges say that if government fails to mull applications, thousands of refugees who fled genocide must be granted temporary residency
By ToI Staff
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