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A man feeds his livestock at a market in Sudan. The livestock industry is Sudan’s largest income earner after gold. Ebrahim Hamid/AFP via Getty Images

Sudan: how warring factions gained influence in the country’s food system – and what it means for the current conflict

Armed actors in fragile contexts typically engage in sectors where they can quickly extract profits.
A Sudanese woman rests while fleeing the ongoing conflict between Sudan’s army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in North Darfur, in April 2025. EPA/MARWAN MOHAMED

‘I have to talk about it so that the world can know what happened to women and girls in Sudan’ – rape and terror sparks mass migration

Hundreds of returnees and forced migrants reported being terrorised by soldiers and armed militias on both sides of the Sudan civil war.
A woman from El Fasher at a displacement camp in the Darfur region of Sudan in late October. Mohammed Jammal/UNICEF/AP

Can the world prevent a genocide in Sudan?

After rebel fighters captured a major city in Darfur last week, alarming reports emerged of massacres and sexual violence targeting the region’s Black population.
Displaced Sudanese in Tawila, a town in the country’s war-torn western Darfur region, in October 2025, after fleeing El-Fasher. AFP via Getty Images

Peace in Sudan? 3 reasons why mediation hasn’t worked so far

As fighting escalates in Sudan, the latest peace efforts seem unlikely to achieve more than a fragile ceasefire.
Activists from the Ethiopian community march in protest of Donald Trump’s comments on Ethiopia and the Renaissance Dam on Oct. 29, 2020, in Washington. J. Countess/Getty Images

Trump’s dip into the Nile waters dispute didn’t settle the conflict – in fact, it may have caused more ripples

US attempts to intervene in long-running spat between Ethiopia and Egypt has yielded little progress – and may have put US credibility on the line.

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