16 April 2023 | Thomson Reuters (Author)

Sudan

Brief chronology of political developments since 2018

Sudan's years of political strife (Media Report, English)

15 April 2023 | BBC News (Author)

Sudan

Background article on the fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces

Sudan fighting: The military rivalry behind the clashes in Khartoum (Media Report, English)

15 April 2023 | Thomson Reuters (Author)

Sudan

Brief background article on the power struggle

Factbox: The struggle for power in Sudan (Media Report, English)

13 April 2023 | Thomson Reuters (Author)

Sudan

Brief background article on the Rapid Support Forces

Factbox: Who are Sudan's Rapid Support Forces? (Media Report, English)

28 October 2025 | Amnesty International (Author)

Sudan

North Darfur: Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) claim to have taken control over parts of the city of al-Fashir; according to reports, the group has carried out attacks on civilians

Sudan: RSF must end attacks and further suffering of civilians in El Fasher (Appeal or News Release, English)

• North Darfur: Paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) claim to have taken control over parts of the city of al-Fashir; according to reports, the group has carried out attacks on civilians
• Norddarfur: Paramilitärische Rapid Support Forces (RSF) behaupten, Teile der Stadt al-Faschir erobert zu haben; Berichten zufolge hat die Gruppe Angriffe auf Zivilist·innen verübt
• Burned market in El Fasher, North Darfur on September 1, 2023 ©AFP via Getty Images Responding to reports of violence and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) attacks on civilians in El Fasher, in Sudan’s North Darfur State, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, Tigere Chagutah, said; “The reports emerging from El Fasher are horrifying. […] The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary force that is fighting the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), has laid siege on El Fasher since May 2024. On 26 October, the RSF claimed that it had taken control of parts of El Fasher, the last major city in Darfur under SAF control. On 27 October, SAF announced it had withdrawn its forces from the city.

21 October 2025 | BBC News (Author)

Sudan

Khartoum: Article on drone attack on area near the international airport

Drone attack hits Sudan's capital ahead of planned airport reopening (Media Report, English)

• On Monday, Sudan's Civil Aviation Authority had announced the airport would reopen on Wednesday, months after the army recaptured Khartoum from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and began repairing the heavily damaged airport. Tuesday's strike marked the third attack in the capital within a week, following strikes on two army bases in north-west Khartoum on consecutive days last week.

16 October 2025 | BBC News (Author)

Sudan

Khartoum: Article on the impact of the war on children's health

'I can't afford to save both twins': Sudan's war left one mother with an impossible choice (Media Report, English)

• Touma and her family were forced to flee after fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) reached their home about 200km (125 miles) south-west of Khartoum. "[The RSF] took everything we owned - our money and our livestock - straight out of our hands," she says. "We escaped with only our lives." With no money or food, Touma's children began to suffer. […] What began as an eruption of fighting between forces loyal to two generals – army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and RSF leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti – soon engulfed the city. For two years – until last March when the army retook control - the city was gripped by war as rival fighters clashed.

15 October 2025 | BBC News (Author)

Sudan

Al-Fashir: Article on the food situation and the intentional targeting of civilians by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)

War crimes alert as food runs out in besieged Sudan city (Media Report, English)

• Al-Fashir: Article on the food situation and the intentional targeting of civilians by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
• Al-Faschir: Artikel zur Ernährungssituation und gezielten Angriffen auf Zivilist·innen durch die paramilitärischen Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
• Satellite images show how Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is flouting international law by intentionally targeting civilians in the besieged city of el-Fasher - actions that should be considered war crimes, a research team from Yale University says.

9 October 2025 | BBC News (Author)

Sudan

Al-Fashir: At least 13 people killed in attack on a hospital by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)

Thirteen killed as hospital shelled in besieged Sudan city, BBC told (Media Report, English)

• Al-Fashir: At least 13 people killed in attack on a hospital by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)
• Al-Faschir: Mindestens 13 Menschen bei Angriff auf ein Krankenhaus durch die paramilitärischen Rapid Support Forces (RSF) getötet
• Sixteen others, including a doctor and nurse, were injured after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shelled Saudi hospital several times on Tuesday night, a source there told the BBC. A group of Sudanese medics has called the attack a war crime.

9 October 2025 | HRW – Human Rights Watch (Author)

Sudan

Article on alleged use of chemical weapons by military

Disturbing Reports of Sudan’s Military Using Chlorine Gas (Appeal or News Release, English)

• == Use as a Weapon Prohibited Under International Law == Ida Sawyer [https://www.hrw.org/about/people/ida-sawyer] Director, Crisis, Conflict and Arms Division The United States [https://www.hrw.org/united-states] government sanctioned [https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy2789] General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the head of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) andSudan’s [https://www.hrw.org […] The France 24 Observers, the network’s digital investigation unit geolocated photographs and videos posted in September 2024 at the Garri military base and the nearby Jaili oil refinery north of Khartoum, both at the time under the control of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), the SAF’s opponent in the country’s armed conflict. […] The United States should also publish the evidence on which it based its sanctions against al-Burhan. In a conflict that has already seen both sides commit numerous war crimes, at times on a widespread scale, the apparent use of a common industrial chemical as a weapon creates a disturbing precedent. It threatens international norms banning unconscionable forms of warfare.