Sudan ‘s civil war has a long and complicated history rooted in the country’s colonial and post-colonial era, and the more recent Darfur War, which started in 2003. However, the recent conflict largely ignited in April 2023, building on a simmering conflict, with many aid groups monitoring, and reporting upon, the situation for years.

Famine is happening in El Fasher, a major city in the western Darfur region, and the town of Kadugli, in the southern South Kordofan province, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification said in a new report.

The International Criminal Court is turning its focus back to Darfur as witnesses describe massacres in El-Fasher, the latest flashpoint in Sudan’s spiraling war.

In a shocking development, 36-year-old Indian national Adarsh Behera has been abducted by Sudan’s rebel forces amid the ongoing civil war, sparking urgent diplomatic efforts for his release.

A global hunger monitor on Monday confirmed famine conditions in al-Fashir, the Sudanese city taken by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after a lengthy siege, as well as Kadugli, another besieged city in Sudan's south.

Sudan's paramilitary forces have reportedly killed hundreds at a hospital, including patients, after seizing the provincial capital of North Darfur.

The country’s civil war has triggered a wave of brutal reprisals targeting the region’s Black population.

Satellite images and verified videos paint a harrowing picture of door-to-door mass killings in the Darfur region of war-torn Sudan.

The war between rival military factions, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has claimed the lives of an estimated 150,000 people and displaced as many as 14 million, according to the Council on Foreign Relation’s Global Conflict Tracker.

Famine has spread to two new regions in Sudan, including a major city in the Darfur region where a militia has reportedly carried out mass killings and sent tens of thousands flee