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By Zeinab Abbas BadawiWriter and expert in the field of human rights and gender Reports on women’s experiences in the war are only the tip of the iceberg. This paper seeks to begin to deepen this conversation by highlighting some additional women’s experiences, to explore the impact of the conflict on women and to discuss the […]

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May 28, 2024 We the undersigned human rights defenders, organizations and activists are issuing an urgent call to the international community to take urgent and decisive action to protect civilians in Sudan and particularly to respond to the ongoing siege and bombardment of El Fasher and the risks that this poses to civilians. There are

May 27, 2024 By Gill Lusk The political vacuum has swelled and the Islamist civilian and army leaders are trying their utmost to fill it.  Yet this space should rightly be filled, and filled to overflowing, by the civilian alternative, the Coordination of Civilian Democratic Forces, known as Taqaddum, and the peace and justice of

Security developments – Fighting continues in the capital, the Kordofans and Gezira while both warring parties amass troops in the El Fasher area. Political developments – Civil actors continue to organize in various international capitals while the warring parties try to set up their own civilian administrations. Humanitarian developments – Aid access and low funding

On April 14, 2024, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), engaged in conflict with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) since April 15, 2023, seized control of Mellit, a town situated approximately 60 km from El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur. Mellit holds strategic significance as it sits at a pivotal junction linking El Fasher to

By Suliman Baldo As regional and sub-regional initiatives to end the war in Sudan wobble, it is becomingclear that without urgent inter-national intervention, Sudan’s ongoing war is on a trajectory to ward complete state collapse and the permanent displacement of an entire society. Read the full article in Atar magazine here.

The Sudan Conflict Monitor is a rapid response to the war in Sudan written through a peacebuilding, human rights, and justice lens, reflecting on the most important stories in the country. Please share it widely. Powered by Ayin, Human Rights Hub, and the Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker In this issue: Read the full monitor

As the war in Sudan continues, the positioning of regional leaders like Malik Agar in Blue Nile and Minni Minawi and Gibril ibrahim in Darfur, plays an ever more critical role. Agar has sided with the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) against the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the ongoing war and recently formed a new

(March 18, 2024) Chad is both impacting, and impacted by, the ongoing war in Sudan. The war has sent large numbers of refugees from Sudan’s Darfur into Chad. At the same time, Chad is coming out of a transition in power from Idriss to Mahmat Deby in 2021, which has impacted Chad in ways that