PortSudan,Sudan: Sudanese volunteer rescuers said Wednesday that seven people were killed and 11 others wounded by paramilitary shelling at a famine

Thousands of families fled their homes in Sudan s North Darfur state over two days, the United Nations s migration agency said

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court says his office will be seeking arrest warrants for those accused of atrocities in Sudan’s West Darfur region, which has seen reported ethnic cleansing by paramilitary forces that have been fighting government forces for 19 months.

The Sahel region is a geographical belt in Africa that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, between the Sahara Desert in the north and the Savannah in the south. It is characterised by challenging environmental crises and conflicts.

Sudanese army troops and allied militiamen were rapidly advancing in the capital on Wednesday, engaging the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in street combat in residential areas once home to hundreds of thousands of citizens before the war broke out 21 months ago.

By Buthayna El Haggar The International Criminal Court (ICC) has announced plans to issue arrest warrants for those responsible for war crimes in Sudan’s West Darfur region. The ICC prosecutor Karim Khan confirmed this decision on Monday,

Nearly 4,000 families have displaced from villages west and south of El Fasher due to Rapid Support Forces attacks. The Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM) says that about 3,960 families were displaced from different villages across El Fasher locality,

More than 100 people were killed in attacks on villages near El Fasher, the capital of Sudan’s North Darfur state, residents and an armed group said, attributing the violence to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Sudan’s Minister of Minerals on Monday urged the military to deploy its strike force to Darfur to prevent the city of El Fasher from falling to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), accusing the United Arab Emirates and Chad of fueling the conflict by supplying the group.

Khan had a simple message for those on the ground in El Geneina in West Darfur, the city of El Fasher in North Darfur, which is besieged by RSF forces, and elsewhere in Darfur: “Now, better late ...

Karim Khan told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that crimes are being committed in Darfur "as we speak and daily," and are being used as a weapon of war.