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This paper is an English translation of a paper published by STPT in Arabic in 2024.  By Khalid Mohammed Taha Although eastern Sudan has remained relatively calm and has not been directly impacted by fighting, it has been severely impacted, receiving internally displaced persons and becoming home to the government. The region has also become...

This paper is the product of joint research efforts of STPT and New Features Multimedia The fiercest battles of the war that erupted in mid-April 2023 between Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and its creation, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been fought in the tripartite capital of Khartoum, and in the western regions of...

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...