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Italy signals commitment to shaping middle east future

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani emphasized Italy’s significant role in promoting peace and reconstruction in the Middle East during the G7 Foreign Ministers Summit in Canada. Highlighting Italy’s planned €60 million investment in reconstruction, Tajani noted that efforts could......

Explosions rock Sudan’s capital Khartoum despite new humanitarian truce announcement

Khartoum, Sudan — A series of explosions were heard Friday morning near Khartoum, the Sudanese capital held by the army, just one day after the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) announced their agreement to a three-month humanitarian truce. Residents in Omdurman, a neighboring......

Satellite images reveal possible mass graves in El-Fasher, Sudan

Satellite imagery analyzed by Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) has revealed evidence of “body disposal activities” in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher, now under the control of paramilitary forces. The report indicates traces consistent with mass graves near a mosque......

Al Jazeera correspondent detained in Darfur as U.S. demands protection of civilians

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) detained journalist Moamar Ibrahim, a correspondent for Al Jazeera Mubasher, in El Fasher, North Darfur, on Sunday, sparking widespread condemnation from press unions and renewed international concern over the humanitarian situation in Sudan. Ibrahim was reportedly the......

BNP Paribas shares plunge over 8% in Paris after being found complicit in Sudan atrocities

The shares of BNP Paribas fell by more than 8% on Monday on the Paris Stock Exchange, after a New York juryfound the French bank complicit in human rights abuses in Sudan for helping finance the army and militias of former dictator Omar al-Bashir. Around 11:20......

Sudan: 30 dead in drone strike on displaced persons center in El-Fasher

At least 30 people were killed on Saturday in a drone strike targeting a displaced persons center in El-Fasher, a city under siege in the Darfur region of western Sudan, according to a local organization. The Coordination of Resistance Committees, a civilian group documenting abuses in the ongoing conflict,......

Sudan: At least thirteen killed in attack on mosque in El-Fasher

At least 13 civilians were killed in an attack attributed to paramilitary forces on a mosque in El-Fasher, a besieged city in Darfur, western Sudan, witnesses said on Thursday, October 9. El-Fasher remains the last major city in Darfur not fully under the control of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which......

Sudanese militia leader convicted by ICC for crimes against humanity

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday found Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, known as Ali Kosheib, guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur between 2003 and 2004. Kosheib was convicted of murder, rape, torture, and other acts of violence......

At least 75 killed in paramilitary drone attack on mosque in Sudan

At least 75 people were killed on Friday in a drone strike carried out by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a mosque in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, according to local rescue workers. The attack targeted the al-Daraja neighborhood, where many displaced families had sought refuge......