March 13 OCHA WARNS OF EXTREMELY DIRE HEALTH SITUATION IN N DARFUR. 200 health facilities…are not functioning, and there is severe shortage in medical staff, essential medicines and life-saving supplies. …continued…
Category: Sudan’s Struggle
Sudan’s Struggle
Edited by Carol Dudek from news reports beginning October 2021
Sudan’s Struggle Feb. 4, 2025 – Feb. 20, 2025
February 20 SUDANESE COMMUNIST PARTY DECLARED OPPOSITION TO FORMATION OF 2 RIVAL GOVERNMENTS, asserting neither the army nor the RSF are qualified to govern the country. Salih Mahmoud, Communist Party foreign relations…
Sudan’s Struggle Jan. 11, 2025 – Jan. 30, 2025
January 30, 2025 SURGE IN RSF VIOLATIONS AGAINST WOMEN IN AL-JEZIRA …by RSF including killing, injuring, rape and abduction. 50 women visited health centres last week complaining of abortion complications due to…
Sudan’s Struggle Dec. 23, 2024 – Jan. 7, 2025
January 7 SUDAN LIFTED FORCE MAJEURE ON TRANSPORTATION OF CRUDE OIL FROM SO SUDAN to a port on the Red Sea after security conditions improved. Khartoum declared force majeure last year after the main pipeline…
Sudan’s Struggle Dec. 3, 2024 – Dec. 27, 2024
December 27 RSF MASSACRE IN AL JAZIRA THREATENS REGIONAL STABILIZATION. The precise reasons for the flare up of violence…seems driven by retribution and revenge. Days after the defection of an ex-RSF leader, 370 villagers mainly…
Sudan’s Struggle Dec. 7, 2024 – Dec. 18, 2024
December 18 2.7 MILLION WOMEN OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE DISPLACED IN SUDAN according to UN Population Fund, including 272,000 pregnant women of whom 91,000 will give birth in 3 months. Sudan was already enduring years of humanitarian crisis, but…
Sudan’s Struggle Nov. 9, 2024 – Dec. 3, 2024
December 3 55 MUSICIANS KILLED SINCE ERUPTION OF WAR. Among the victims were popular singer and pro-peace activist Shaden Hussein, keyboardist Ibrahim Miko…a pillar in iconic Muhmoud Aziz’s band and melodist Bashir Abdul Majeed. The…
Sudan’s Struggle Oct. 26, 2024 – Nov. 14, 2024
November 14 WAR DEATH TOLL MUCH HIGHER THAN PREVIOUSLY RECORDED.…60,000 deaths in Khartoum State, far higher than other assessments. Released by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine’s Sudan Research Group, the…
Sudan’s Struggle Oct. 10, 2024 – Oct. 22, 2024
October 22 LOCAL ACTIVISTS REPORTED 50 PEOPLE KILLED SINCES CLASHES ERUPTED IN AL-JAZIRA STATE AFTER PARAMILITARY COMMANDER DEFECTED…. In Wad Madani, a military air strike on a mosque killed 31 people. They …
Sudan’s Struggle Sept. 9, 2024 – Oct. 8, 2024
October 8 UNICEF STRESSED NEED TO STOP CONTINUED VIOLENCE AND DISREGARD FOR CHILDREN’S SAFETY in Sudan, indicating killing of at least 13 children in airstrikes on N Darfur’s al-Kuma. The children…