Press Releases

UN Rights Chief Calls Sudan’s Darfur Crisis “Catastrophic”

(MENAFN) The UN human rights chief delivered a stark warning Monday about the escalating crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region, describing conditions as “catastrophic” and highlighting rampant atrocities amid fierce clashes between the army and...

UN Rights Chief Warns of Catastrophe in Sudan’s Darfur

(MENAFN) The UN’s top human rights official on Monday described the conditions in Sudan’s Darfur area as “catastrophic,” cautioning of large-scale atrocities as clashes escalate between the national army and paramilitary factions. Addressing the...

Number of Displaced Families Fleeing El-Fasher Rises

(MENAFN) At least 642 individuals escaping violence in El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State in western Sudan, have reached Sudan’s Northern State following a “difficult and dangerous journey,” a local medical organization reported on...

Dozens Pass Away Amid Ongoing Conflict in Sudan’s Darfur

(MENAFN) Shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) resulted in the deaths of at least 18 individuals and left over 100 others wounded in El-Fasher, the capital city of North Darfur State in western Sudan, according to local...

Cholera Outbreak Ravages Sudan’s Darfur

(MENAFN) A rapidly escalating cholera outbreak is ravaging Sudan’s conflict-ridden Darfur region, where the collapse of healthcare infrastructure and worsening humanitarian conditions have left civilians without critical treatment or preventive...

Sudan: Attacks in Kordofan states cause hundreds of deaths, mass displacement and the collapse of essential services

“Fighting in the Kordofan states has intensified since the beginning of 2025, resulting in hundreds of deaths and exacerbating the country’s humanitarian crisis. In some areas, 90% of civilians have fled,” explained Daniel O’Malley, ICRC Head of...

Cholera cases reaches over one thousand in Sudan

(MENAFN) Sudan’s Health Ministry reported on Tuesday that the country registered 1,210 additional cholera cases over the past week, resulting in 36 fatalities. In an official statement, the ministry noted that "the new cases brought total number...

Cholera Cases, Deaths Surge in Sudan

(MENAFN) Sudan’s Health Ministry revealed on Tuesday that 1,210 new cholera infections, including 36 fatalities, were recorded over the past week. According to the ministry’s statement, these new figures raise the total cholera cases since the...

Sudan’s RSF Bloodbath Leaves 27 Civilians Dead

(MENAFN) At least 27 civilians lost their lives and 43 more were seriously injured after an assault by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) struck a village in Sudan’s West Kordofan region, local medical professionals reported on Thursday....

Cholera Cases in Sudan Increase

(MENAFN) Sudan’s Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday that it had logged 1,210 additional cholera infections over the past week, along with 36 associated fatalities. According to the ministry’s official release, these newly identified cases have...

RSF Shelling Leaves 24 Dead, 55 Injured in Sudan’s El-Fasher

(MENAFN) At least 24 people lost their lives and 55 others were wounded in a deadly attack by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur in western Sudan, medics reported Thursday. The Sudan Doctors...

Medic group declares thousands facing death in Sudan

(MENAFN) Thousands in North Darfur, Sudan, face life-threatening conditions due to severe shortages of essential medical supplies, the Sudan Doctors Network has warned. Hospitals in the regional capital, El Fasher, are struggling to treat the...

Starvation in Sudan takes lives of forty-six people

(MENAFN) At least 46 individuals, the majority being women and children, have lost their lives to malnutrition in Sudan’s South Kordofan state over the past two months, according to medical reports, as hunger and shortages of healthcare worsen in...

People in Sudan’s South Kordofan Battle Starvation

(MENAFN) In the conflict-ravaged region of South Kordofan, Sudan, at least 46 individuals—primarily women and children—have lost their lives due to severe malnutrition over the last two months, according to Sudan’s Doctors Network. The...

Hunger Crisis: Malnutrition Claims at Least 46 Lives in Sudan

(MENAFN) A worsening hunger crisis in Sudan’s South Kordofan has claimed the lives of at least 46 people—mostly women and children—over the past two months, amid intensifying conflict and medical shortages, Sudan’s Doctors Network said on...

Medic group states Thousands will die in Sudan

(MENAFN) Thousands of people in Sudan’s war-torn North Darfur are at risk of dying due to severe shortages of vital medicines, the Sudan Doctors Network (SDN) warned Tuesday. The group said hospitals in the regional capital, El Fasher, are running...

Sudanese Military Says It Thwarted RSF Assault

(MENAFN) The Sudanese military announced Wednesday it had thwarted an offensive by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) targeting El-Fasher, the capital of North Darfur. According to the army, troops from the 6th Infantry Division, supported by allied...

Cholera claims minimum of forty lives in Sudan

(MENAFN) Cholera has taken the lives of more than 40 people in Sudan’s Darfur region within the past week, according to reports, marking the country’s most severe wave of the disease in recent years. The outbreak has spread widely across Darfur, a...

Sudan Reports 239 Children Dead Since January

(MENAFN) Since January, at least 239 children have died in western Sudan due to severe shortages of food and medical supplies, the Sudan Doctors Network reported on Sunday. The civilian medical group revealed that its team documented these child...

WHO chief calls for immediate truce in El-Fasher

(MENAFN) The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed outrage over a deadly attack on the Saudi Maternity Hospital in El-Fasher, Sudan, in which more than 460 patients and companions were reportedly killed and health workers abducted....