16. April 2023 | Thomson Reuters (Autor)

Sudan

Kurzer chronologischer Überblick über politische Entwicklungen seit 2018

Sudan's years of political strife (Medienbericht, Englisch)

15. April 2023 | BBC News (Autor)

Sudan

Hintergrundartikel zu den Kämpfen zwischen der Armee und den Rapid Support Forces (RSF, Schnelle Unterstützungskräfte)

Sudan fighting: The military rivalry behind the clashes in Khartoum (Medienbericht, Englisch)

15. April 2023 | Thomson Reuters (Autor)

Sudan

Kurzer Hintergrundartikel zum Machtkampf

Factbox: The struggle for power in Sudan (Medienbericht, Englisch)

13. April 2023 | Thomson Reuters (Autor)

Sudan

Kurzer Hintergrundartikel zu den Rapid Support Forces (RSF, Schnelle Unterstützungskräfte)

Factbox: Who are Sudan's Rapid Support Forces? (Medienbericht, Englisch)

12. August 2025 | USDOS – US Department of State (Autor)

Sudan

Jahresbericht zur Menschenrechtslage im Jahr 2024 (siehe auch unseren Blogbeitrag zur diesjährigen Ausgabe)

2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Sudan (Periodischer Bericht, Englisch)

• Secretary of State Antony Blinken determined that members of the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces committed war crimes in the country. The Secretary also determined that members of the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing. […] In the conflict, members of the Rapid Support Forces and allied militias also committed genocide. The Rapid Support Forces and allied militias systematically murdered men and boys on an ethnic basis, and deliberately targeted women and girls from certain ethnic groups for rape and other forms of sexual violence. […] As of year’s end, fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces continued to intensify and spread to new areas of the country, with reports of at times indiscriminate aerial bombardments by the Sudanese Armed Forces on densely populated areas and reports of widespread attacks on civilians by the Rapid Support Forces. […] Militias affiliated with the Rapid Support Forces reportedly continued to commit killings, abductions, rape, sexual slavery, and other physical abuses and mistreatment of civilians in Darfur and across the country. […] Weak rule of law persisted in Darfur, where fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the Rapid Support Forces, banditry, criminality, and intercommunal violence were the main causes of insecurity. Section 1. == Life == === a.

23. Juli 2025 | BBC News (Autor)

Sudan

Provinzen Nord-, Süd- und Westkordofan: Bewaffneter Konflikt zwischen sudanesischen Streitkräfte und paramilitärischen Rapid Support Forces (RSF) breitet sich auf die Regionen aus

Oil-rich Sudanese region becomes new focus of war between army and rival forces (Medienbericht, Englisch)

• Provinzen Nord-, Süd- und Westkordofan: Bewaffneter Konflikt zwischen sudanesischen Streitkräfte und paramilitärischen Rapid Support Forces (RSF) breitet sich auf die Regionen aus
• North, South and West Kordofan provinces: Armed conflict between Sudanese armed forces and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) spread to these regions
• However, the battle for the region - which is made up three states, with a population of close to eight million - has intensified since June, when the army focused on regaining the territory from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) after it made significant gains in the preceding three months, recapturing the capital, Khartoum, and neighbouring Gezira state, the agricultural hub of Sudan. […] Sudan's military leader Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan flew into Khartoum's main airport on 20 July, his second visit to the city since his troops drove out RSF fighters in March. Gen Burhan remains based in the eastern city of Port Sudan, suggesting that he is still not confident to return permanently to Khartoum, now a burnt-out wreck. […] The RSF had seized Khartoum soon after the war started in April 2023, following a massive fall-out between Gen Burhan and his then-ally, the paramilitary group's commander, Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as "Hemedti". […] The RSF helped Burhan stage a coup in 2021 and crush dissent until they turned on each other after Gen Dagalo resisted his plan to integrate the paramilitary force into the army. International Crisis Group think-tank analyst Alan Boswell told the BBC that the army now wanted to defeat the RSF in Kordofan so that it could push westwards into Darfur - the paramilitary group's birthplace.

17. Juli 2025 | OHCHR – UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (Autor)

Sudan

Region Kordofan: Mindestens Seit 10. Juli 2025 mindestens 60 Zivilist·innen durch die paramilitärischen Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Nordkordofan getötet; zwischen 10. und 14. Juli 2025 mindestens 23 Zivilist·innen bei Luftangriffen sudanesischer Streitkräfte in Westkordofan getötet

Sudan: UN Human Rights Chief deplores killing of dozens of civilians in Kordofan (Appell oder Pressemitteilung, Englisch)

• Juli 2025 mindestens 60 Zivilist·innen durch die paramilitärischen Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Nordkordofan getötet; zwischen 10. und 14. Juli 2025 mindestens 23 Zivilist·innen bei Luftangriffen sudanesischer Streitkräfte in Westkordofan getötet
• Kordofan region: At least 60 civilians killed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in North Kordofan since 10 July 2025; at least 23 civilians killed in air strikes by Sudanese armed forces in West Kordofan between 10 and 14 July 2025
• The UN Human Rights Office has verified the killing of least 60 civilians by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in North Kordofan’s Bara locality since 10 July. Civil society groups have reported that up to 300 people were killed.

13. Juli 2025 | BBC News (Autor)

Sudan

El-Fascher: Paramilitärische Gruppe RSF stürmen Viehmarkt und Gefängnis in von der Armee kontrollierten Stadt

RSF storms cattle market and prison in 'death trap' Sudanese city (Medienbericht, Englisch)

• The Sudanese paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) stormed the besieged city of el-Fasher on Friday in a battle that raged for seven hours, witnesses told the BBC. RSF fighters managed to capture a cattle market, a prison and a military base while broadcasting videos of themselves walking around empty stockyards.

11. Juli 2025 | BBC News (Autor)

Sudan

Staatsanwaltschaft des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs (IStGH) geht von Kriegsverbrechen und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit in Darfur aus

War crimes being committed in Sudan, ICC believes (Medienbericht, Englisch)

• War broke out between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in April 2023, leading to what the UN calls "devastating civilian casualties". ICC Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan said it was "difficult to find appropriate words to describe the depth of suffering" in the region.

4. Juli 2025 | BBC News (Autor)

Sudan

Artikel zu den Hintergründen des Bürgerkrieges, den Konfliktparteien und den Auswirkungen auf die Zivilbevölkerung

Sudan war: A simple guide to what is happening (Medienbericht, Englisch)

• Sudan plunged into a civil war in April 2023 after a vicious struggle for power broke out between its army and a powerful paramilitary group, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). It has led to a famine and claims of a genocide in the western Darfur region. […] The coup was staged by the two men at the centre of the current conflict: * Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the armed forces and in effect the country's president * And his deputy, RSF leader Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, better known as "Hemedti". But then Gen Burhan and Gen Dagalo disagreed on the direction the country was going in and the proposed move towards civilian rule. […] It is disputed who fired the first shot but the fighting swiftly escalated, with the RSF seizing much of Khartoum until the army regained control of it almost two years later in March 2025. == Who are the Rapid Support Forces? […] Since then, Gen Dagalo has built a powerful force that has intervened in conflicts in Yemen and Libya. He also controls some of Sudan's gold mines, and allegedly smuggles the metal to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The army accuses the UAE of backing the RSF, and carrying out drone strikes in Sudan. The oil-rich Gulf state denies the allegation. […] This led to the US imposing sanctions on Gen Dagalo, followed by similar measures against Gen Burhan [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn8x5nkj8pyo]. Sudan's government filed a case against the UAE in the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of being complicit in the genocide by funding and arming the RSF.