Nabeel Biajo is a journalist with VOA's English to Africa Service.
The United Nations Security Council over the weekend expressed “deep concern” over an imminent attack in Al-Fashir, a town in Sudan’s North Darfur region, by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF. For updates on the ongoing conflict in the Northeast African nation, VOA’s Nabeel Biajo spoke to Raga Makawi, a Sudanese editor and researcher.
Sudanese based in the United States on Monday took to the White House to protest ongoing fighting in the Northeast African nation between the Sudanese Armed Forces, SAF and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, RSF. VOA’s Nabeel Biajo was in attendance of the protest in downtown Washington D.C. where he filed updates.
WASHINGTON/JUBA — The United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan has released its latest report, offering a grim depiction of pervasive violence and repression plaguing the nation.
Amid the ongoing conflict in Sudan, Djibouti's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Wednesday the highly anticipated face-to-face meeting between the top commanders of the warring Sudan Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces would be postponed due to "technical reasons."
The recent escalation of hostilities between the Sudan’s Armed Forces and the paramilitary, the Rapid Support Forces, RSF, in the central state of Jazeera, has caused hundreds of thousands to flee, forcing humanitarian agencies to suspend aid, says the United Nations.
Several human rights organizations and a dozen of members of the Sudanese community held a rally in front of the White House to urge the Biden administration to pay attention to the Sudan conflict, protect civilians and increase humanitarian aid. The rally comes as fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces enters its sixth month. John Tanza files from Washington, DC.
Washington/JUBA— Several human rights organizations, alongside Sudanese citizens, staged a rally in front of the White House, appealing to the Biden administration to address the ongoing conflict in Sudan, protect civilians, and escalate humanitarian aid. The nearly six-month-long clash between the Sudan Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has left millions in dire need of assistance.
JUBA/WASHINGTON — Sudanese political circles are abuzz in the wake of United Nations Head of Mission to Sudan Volker Perthes’ recent resignation, months after the country’s military authorities declared him persona non grata.
The UNHCR's special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Mohammed Affey, Thursday issued an urgent call to end the devastating conflict in Sudan, stressing the imperative to save millions of lives and restore peace in the region.
WASHINGTON — The ongoing conflict in Sudan has resulted in thousands of lives lost and millions displaced. However, according to rights organizations, a disturbing trend has emerged — rampant sexual violence against women and girls in various parts of the country, including in Khartoum and Darfur.
WASHINGTON — Analysts say Wednesday’s killing of West Darfur State's governor Khamis Abdullah Abbakar will likely heighten ethnic polarization in the state and beyond and possibly trigger a cycle of tribal retaliations barring an effective intervention to address the situation.
Hundreds of Sudanese Americans gathered in front of the White House in Washington D.C. to protest ongoing fighting back in Sudan. Protesters who came from different states across the U.S. chanted and held up placards and banners that said “No to War, Yes to Peace.” They also called on U.S. policymakers to stop the war and punish perpetrators of violence against civilians. VOA's Nabeel Biajo gives us more.
WASHINGTON — As a spurious three-day cease-fire ends Sunday in Sudan, analysts expect the worst in the northeast African nation’s now eight-day-long running conflict between Sudan Armed Forces and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Sudanese Islamic reformer Mahmoud Mohammed Taha was executed on Jan. 18, 1985 on charges of religious heresy. Many in Sudan believe the execution of the 76-year-old Taha— reverently referred to as Ustaz Mahmoud — precipitated the downfall of Sudan’s military dictator Jaafar Nimeiry who was ousted three months later in a popular uprising.
Maria Gakdeng, the 19-year-old daughter of South Sudanese immigrants who broke several college basketball records in her freshman year, has her eyes set on playing in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA).
Sudan this week marked the anniversary of its first popular uprising in 1964 that topped the dictatorship of General Ibrahim Aboud with more protests, demanding the nation's present-day military rulers hand over power to civilians.
Information Minister Michael Makuei says the money which was borrowed from Qatar National Bank was given to businesspeople not the government.
The International Criminal Court in The Hague opened the trial Thursday of one of the last major suspects in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Felicien Kabuga. For more on the trail, VOA’s Nabeel Biajo spoke with Serge Brammertz, prosecutor of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.
With cases of monkeypox rising in Sudan, health authorities say they will be working with humanitarian groups to adequately respond to the surge.
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