Sudan has been stricken by a cholera outbreak that has killed nearly two dozen people and sickened hundreds more in recent weeks, health authorities said Sunday.
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Sudan's health minister on Saturday declared a cholera epidemic after weeks of heavy rain in the war-torn country, in a video released by his ministry.
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The United Nations said Friday it was ready to start delivering food into war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region after the government decided to reopen a key border crossing with Chad.
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Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed at least 80 people in a southeastern village, a medical source and witnesses said Friday, even as US-sponsored talks sought to end 16 months of devastating war.
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The US special envoy for Sudan on Thursday said he wanted "tangible results" from talks on ending the devastating war in the country despite the Sudanese government staying away.
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The United States insisted Monday it would press ahead with convening talks this week on the devastating conflict in Sudan, even without the Sudanese government.
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Red Cross chief Mirjana Spoljaric said Monday she hopes this week's scheduled talks on Sudan will result in solid humanitarian steps and remove obstacles blocking a ceasefire.
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A Sudanese delegation arrived Friday in Saudi Arabia for talks with US mediators on conditions for the government's participation in ceasefire negotiations in Geneva next week, Sudanese authorities and a diplomat said.
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The famine in a displaced persons camp in war-torn Sudan is a "shameful stain" on the conscience of the international community, which failed to prevent it despite multiple warnings, the United Nations said Tuesday.
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Heavy rains have triggered building collapses that have killed nine people in northern Sudan, as the country reels from almost 16 months of fighting between rival security forces, a medic told AFP Tuesday.
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Shelling by Sudanese paramilitaries killed at least 23 people on Saturday in the besieged Darfur city of El-Fasher, activists said.
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The humanitarian catastrophe in conflict-ravaged Sudan threatens to engulf the entire region, the United Nations warned after famine was declared in the North Darfur region.
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War raging in Sudan between the army and rival paramilitaries has pushed the Zamzam camp near Darfur's besieged city of El-Fasher into famine, a UN-backed assessment said Thursday.
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Sudan's foreign affairs ministry which is loyal to the regular army fighting paramilitaries said on Tuesday that it "wants more discussions" before accepting a US invitation for ceasefire talks.
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Sudan's warring parties have committed widespread sexual violence against women and girls aged between nine and 60, and prevented survivors from accessing healthcare in the capital, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
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The United States announced Tuesday that it had invited Sudan's warring sides to hold ceasefire talks in Switzerland next month.
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Sudan's 15-month war has led to indiscriminate violence and repeated attacks on health workers, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity said in a report released on Monday.
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Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan received on Sunday an Iranian ambassador and sent his own to Tehran, the government said, cementing a rapprochement after an eight-year rupture.
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Talks between a United Nations envoy and delegations from both warring parties in Sudan have proven an encouraging first step, the UN said Friday as the discussions neared a close.
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Hospitals and other healthcare facilities in war-torn Sudan are facing increased attacks, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Wednesday as fighting between the army and paramilitaries rages on.
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