Tag: Sudan
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🇬🇭 Africa’s Organised Crime Index 2025: 23 Countries Face High Criminality and Weak Resilience
The 2025 Africa Organised Crime Index finds that organised crime has expanded across the continent since 2019 while resilience has weakened. Twenty-three African countries face the combination of high criminality and low resilience, with financial crime, trafficking, resource crime, counterfeit goods and arms trafficking among the continent’s most pervasive criminal markets.
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🇪🇹 Ethiopia’s Armed Groups Realign as Fighting Returns to Tigray
Ethiopia is facing its most serious security escalation since the 2020–2022 Tigray war. Seven armed movements—including the TPLF, Amhara Fano and Oromo Liberation Army—have announced a new alliance, while fighting has returned to Tigray and spread toward Amhara and Afar. With civilians facing renewed displacement, shortages and disrupted transport, the unfolding crisis could reshape Ethiopia’s…
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🇸🇩 Sudan Army Advances Across Kordofan as Fighting Intensifies Around Gold-Mining Areas
Sudan’s army has reported a series of advances across North Kordofan and the Blue Nile region, including the recapture of 11 areas near Al-Mazrub. Fighting around Kurmuk has also intensified, while gold-mining areas and drone warfare have become increasingly important elements of the conflict.
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🇸🇩 RSF Captures Strategic Army Position in Sudan’s Blue Nile as Fighting Intensifies Along Ethiopian Border
BLUE NILE, SUDAN — Sudan’s war is opening another dangerous front along the country’s southeastern border, where the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied fighters have captured a strategic Sudanese army position near Kurmuk following days of heavy fighting. RSF forces said they seized Jabal Kadam, in the Bakori area east of Kurmuk, on Wednesday…
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🇺🇳 UN Probe: Foreign Support and Drones Are Transforming Sudan’s War
A United Nations fact-finding mission says foreign weapons, military technology, fighters and logistical networks are helping sustain Sudan’s war and increasing the ability of both sides to conduct long-range drone strikes. Reuters reported that the UN mission said more than 1,000 people were killed in drone strikes during the first five months of…
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🇺🇸 U.S. Travel Ban Expands: Seven New Countries Face Full Restrictions, Impacting African Travel and Families
The new year ushered in stricter U.S. travel rules, with citizens from seven additional countries now completely barred from entering the United States, a policy that continues to separate families and complicate international exchange. The United States has significantly expanded its controversial travel restrictions, adding seven countries to its list of nations whose citizens are…
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UN Human Rights Council condemns escalating violence in Sudan’s el-Obeid
The top United Nations human rights body, on Monday, approved without a vote a measure that condemns the escalating violence by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and its allies in and around the city of el-Obeid in the North Kordofan region as the war in the African country continues into its fourth year.