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Violence shuts crucial aid corridor into Sudan’s Darfur, UN agency says
FILE PHOTO: A Sudanese national flag is attached to a machine gun of Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) soldiers as they wait for the arrival of Lieutenant General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, deputy head of the military council and head of RSF, before a meeting in Aprag village 60, kilometers away from Khartoum, Sudan, June 22, 2019. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File Photo
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The brutal conflict in Sudan is not a civil war. It’s a war on civilians
Khalid Mustafa Medani
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What is going on in Sudan? A country torn by civil war is on the verge of famine
ADRE, CHAD - APRIL 19: Zahra Tarreel Adam, 19, and her 1 Year old Abdallah who fled from their village of Kandobe in Darfur, Sudan, on April 19, 2024 in Adre, Chad. Since the beginning of the recent conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the the Sudanese Armed Forces, (SAF), which began in March 2023, over 600,000 new refugees have crossed the border from Darfur in Sudan, into Chad. The total number of refugees, including those from previous conflicts, now stands at 1.2 million. Aid agencies, including The World Food Programme, (WFP), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, (UNHCR), already struggling with accute supply shortages, have warned that the life-saving programmes in Chad, will ‘grind to a halt in a matter of weeks without urgent funding’. Chad is now home to one of the largest and fastest-growing refugee populations in Africa. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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Siege tightening in Darfur as fears of mass killings rise
ADRE, CHAD - APRIL 25: Goods move back and forth on horseback across the border between Sudan and Chad on April 25, 2024 in Adre, Chad. Since the beginning of the recent conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the the Sudanese Armed Forces, (SAF), which began in March 2023, over 600,000 new refugees have crossed the border from Darfur in Sudan, into Chad. The total number of refugees, including those from previous conflicts, now stands at 1.2 million. Aid agencies, including The World Food Programme, (WFP), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, (UNHCR), already struggling with acute supply shortages, have warned that the life-saving programmes in Chad, will ‘grind to a halt in a matter of weeks without urgent funding’. Chad is now home to one of the largest and fastest-growing refugee populations in Africa. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
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BNP Paribas must face lawsuit over Sudanese genocide, U.S. judge rules
FILE PHOTO: A view of a BNP Paribas bank building in Paris, France, February 24, 2023. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo
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Evening Update: RCMP confirm search on home of ArriveCan contractor Kristian Firth
GC Strategies partner Kristian Firth responds to questions as he sits in the House of Commons, Wednesday, April 17, 2024 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Darfur villages torched in echo of earlier genocide, report says
A man walks in the market of the Adre refugee camp, on April 10, 2024. Chad is home to the largest number of Sudanese refugees, nearly a million. In a year since the conflict in Sudan started between two rival factions of the military government, more than 571,000 have rushed there on foot or by mule, adding to more than 400,000 compatriots who fled the previous Darfur war since 2003. (Photo by Joris Bolomey / AFP) (Photo by JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Sudan’s forgotten conflict is the worst in the world. Canada is uniquely placed to help end it
Doug Saunders
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Canada announces sanctions for Sudan war, months after other Western governments
Sudanese refugees gather to get water from a water point in the Farchana refugee camp, on April 8, 2024. Chad is home to the largest number of Sudanese refugees, nearly a million. In a year since the conflict in Sudan started between two rival factions of the military government, more than 571,000 have rushed there on foot or by mule, adding to more than 400,000 compatriots who fled the previous Darfur war since 2003. (Photo by Joris Bolomey / AFP) (Photo by JORIS BOLOMEY/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ottawa says all options on the table for solving Sudan’s humanitarian crisis
Minister of International Development Ahmed Hussen is shown on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Friday, March 22, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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No end in sight as Sudan’s war enters its second year
Sudanese Children suffering from malnutrition are treated at an MSF clinic in Metche Camp, Chad, near the Sudanese border, Saturday, April 6, 2024. Many people here fled the fighting in Sudan's vast western region of Darfur, where attacks by the Arab-dominated Rapid Support Forces on ethnic African civilians have revived memories of genocide. The United Nations says close to 9 million people have fled their homes. (AP Photo/Patricia Simon)
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As Sudan crisis rages, Ottawa is urged to do more
Sudanese refugees gather outside a field hospital in Acre, Chad, Aug. 15, 2023. Canada's former ambassador to Sudan says Ottawa should help steer a global effort to end a brutal civil war that has displaced far more people than wars in Ukraine and the Middle East. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP Photo
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First UN food supplies arrive in Sudan’s Darfur after months but millions face acute hunger
This handout photo provided by World Relief shows emergency food being distributed by World Food Programme (WFP) and World Relief in Kulbus, West Darfur, Sudan, end of March 2024. The United Nations said Friday, April 5, 2024, it has begun distributing food in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur province for the first time in months, following two successful cross-border operations, but the population still faces widespread starvation unless more help arrives. (World Relief via AP)
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Sudan humanitarian aid appeal at less than 5% of target despite grim warnings of mass deaths, officials say
A picture taken on March 20, 2024, shows children who fled Khartoum and Jazira states in war-torn Sudan standing near tents at a camp for the internally displaced in southern Gadaref state. After nearly a year of war, Sudan is suffering one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent history, the United Nations warned on March 20, slamming the international community for its lack of action. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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UN Security Council considering call for Ramadan truce in Sudan
FILE PHOTO: A Sudanese family who fled the conflict in Murnei in Sudan's Darfur region, sit beside their belongings while waiting to be registered by UNHCR upon crossing the border between Sudan and Chad in Adre, Chad, July 26, 2023. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo
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Conflict in Sudan risks creating world’s largest hunger crisis, top UN food official warns
A man carries on his shoulder biscuits to be distributed to Sudanese refugees during a food distribution at Kumer refugee camp, near Maganan, 70 km from the Sudanese border in Ethiopia's Amhara region, on February 29, 2024. Having escaped a raging war at home, Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia face more conflict and insecurity as the border region of Amhara is plagued by unrest and clashes that sees the Ethiopian National Defense Force battling an ethnic Amhara militia known as 'Fano'. According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) over 100,000 people have crossed into Ethiopia from Sudan since April 2023. Sudanese and other refugees in the border camps in Amhara lament a lack of security, difficult communication with the outside world - the Ethiopian government has disrupted access to mobile internet in the region since August 2023 - and a general sense of abandonment, raising the question if they fled a dire situation to end up in similar one. (Photo by Michele Spatari / AFP) (Photo by MICHELE SPATARI/AFP via Getty Images)
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Ukraine sends wheat to Sudan as its grain rivalry with Russia intensifies
KYIV OBLAST, UKRAINE - AUGUST 4: Farmers use combine harvesters to harvest a wheat field near the city of Bila Tserkva on August 4, 2023 in Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. A forecast by the Ukrainian agriculture ministry showed that the 2023 grain harvest is likely to fall to 44.3 million tonnes from 53.1 million in 2022, due to the ongoing war with Russia. (Photo by Ed Ram/Getty Images)
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Canada prepares to welcome thousands of Sudanese, but new pathway sparks questions
Sudanese refugees who have fled from the war in Sudan get off a truck loaded with families arriving at a Transit Centre for refugees in Renk, on February 13, 2024.More than 550,000 people have now fled from the war in Sudan to South Sudan since the conflict exploded in April 2023, according to the United Nations. South Sudan, that has itself recently come out of decades of war, was facing a dire humanitarian situation before the war in Sudan erupted and it is feared to not have the resources to host displaced people. The war-torn country of Sudan is currently ravaged by internal fighting between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). (Photo by LUIS TATO / AFP) (Photo by LUIS TATO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Sudan’s army claims first major advance
People queue with their vehicles outside a petrol station in Gedaref city in eastern Sudan on February 14, 2024, amid shortages of fuel and petrol in the war torn country which has been ravaged by internal fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) since last April. Few areas of the country of 48 million inhabitants have been spared from violence, shortages and looting, with 14 million children in need of emergency humanitarian aid, according to UNICEF's representative in Sudan. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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IVF breakthrough gives northern white rhinos fragile hope for a future
Joseph Wachira comforts Sudan, the last living male Northern White Rhino left on the planet, moments before he passed away March 19, 2018 at Ol Pejeta Wildlife Conservancy in northern Kenya. Sudan lived a long, healthy life at the conservancy after he was brought to Kenya from Dvur Kralove zoo in the Czech Republic in 2009. He died surrounded by people who loved him at after suffering from age-related complications that led to degenerative changes in muscles and bones combined with extensive skin wounds. Sudan has been an inspirational figure for many across the world. Thousands have trooped to Ol Pejeta to see him and he has helped raise awareness for rhino conservation. The two female northern white rhinos left on the planet are his direct descendants. Research into new Assisted Reproductive Techniques for large mammals is underway due to him. there is still hope in the future that the subspecies might be restored through IVF. (Photo by Ami Vitale)
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As war expands, Sudan could face a national famine by July, report says
People gather food at a Sudanese refugee camp in Adre, Chad, on Nov. 8.
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UN chief urges all nations to do everything possible to stop the ‘horrible’ war in Sudan
FILE - United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres speaks on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024, at United Nations Headquarters. The United Nations chief on Thursday, Feb. 8, urged the international community to mobilize and do everything possible to stop the war in Sudan, saying “what is happening is horrible.” Guterres said there is no military solution to the conflict between forces supporting rival generals that began in mid-April 2023. (AP Photo/Peter K. Afriyie, File)
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Thirty-seven people killed in disputed oil-rich African region of Abyei in fighting linked to spiritual leader
Locals gather at a UN peacekeeper camp following deadly attacks, in Dokura, Abyei region, Sudan-South Sudan border area, in this still image obtained from a social media video released January 28, 2024. Video obtained by Reuters THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES
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Violence in disputed Sudan-South Sudan border area kills 54
FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2011 file photo, members of the Taposa tribe, one waving the Sudan People's Liberation Movement's flag, celebrate the opening of a US-sponsored electrical power plant in the town of Kapoeta, southern Sudan. South Sudan gained independence after a referendum in January 2011. South Sudan's independence caused economic difficulties in Sudan as the new country gained control over the southern oil fields, which had accounted for three-quarters of the country's oil production. (AP Photo/Pete Muller, File)
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United Nations report discloses UAE’s role in supplying weapons for Sudan war
A boy sits atop a hill overlooking a refugee camp near the Chad-Sudan border, November 9, 2023. Hundreds of Masalit families from Sudan's West Darfur state were relocated here months after fleeing to the Chadian border town of Adre, following an ethnically targeted massacre in the city of El Geneina. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig To match Special Report SUDAN-POLITICS/DARFUR-MALES
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The crisis in Sudan is escalating. Can Canada do anything to help?
Nicholas Coghlan
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Safe haven for Sudanese families fleeing war seized by notorious paramilitary group, UN says
Displaced people fleeing from Wad Madani in Sudan's Jazira state arrive in Gedaref in the country's east on December 17, 2023. Paramilitary forces established a base on December 17 in the formerly safe city of Wad Madani in war-torn Sudan, an AFP correspondent reported, sending thousands fleeing, many of them already displaced. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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At least 250,000 flee fighting in Sudan’s El Gezira state, says International Organization for Migration
Displaced people fleeing from Wad Madani in Sudan's Jazira state arrive in Gedaref in the country's east on December 18, 2023. Paramilitary forces established a base on December 17, 2023 in the formerly safe city of Wad Madani in war-torn Sudan, an AFP correspondent reported, sending thousands fleeing, many of them already displaced. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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New outbreak of warfare in Sudan spreads to sanctuary city
Displaced people fleeing from Wad Madani in Sudan's Jazira state arrive in Gedaref in the country's east on December 17, 2023. Paramilitary forces established a base on December 17 in the formerly safe city of Wad Madani in war-torn Sudan, an AFP correspondent reported, sending thousands fleeing, many of them already displaced. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)
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Sudan’s generals agree to meet in efforts to end their devastating war, a regional bloc says
FILE - Sudan's Army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan speaks in Khartoum, Sudan, on Dec. 5, 2022. Sudan’s warring generals Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, agreed to hold a face-to-face meeting as part of efforts to establish a cease-fire and initiate political talks to end the country’s devastating war, an African regional bloc said Sunday, Dec 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)
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Cholera is spreading in Zimbabwe. Globally, the illness has become an indicator of social collapse
The still grieving 29-year old Jessica Muzambezi whose only child, two-year-old Jadon Kanjani succumbed to cholera, is shown here at relative's place in the Zimbabwean capital Harare where she had gone with her husband to visit her sister-in-law who was not feeling well. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo/ The Globe and Mail.
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UN ends political mission in Sudan, where world hasn’t been able to stop bloodshed
FILE PHOTO: People fleeing the violence in West Darfur, cross the border into Adre, Chad, August 4, 2023. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra/File Photo
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World Food Programme warns food aid for 1.4 million people in Chad ‘grinding to a halt’
Part of the aid provided by the World Food Program is seen in Adre Camp in Adre, Chad, November 8, 2023. REUTERS/El Tayeb Siddig
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Evening Update: Israel says it will let more aid into Gaza as UN warns of hunger and disease
Palestinians queue as they wait to buy bread from a bakery, amid shortages of food supplies and fuel, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip November 17, 2023.