Sudan: Between Khartoum and Nyala - Humanitarian Aid Stuck Amid Legitimacy Conflict

Sudan: Between Khartoum and Nyala - Humanitarian Aid Stuck Amid Legitimacy Conflict

UN estimates indicate that more than 33 million Sudanese, including millions of people in Darfur, Kordofan and Blue Nile, are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. However, this assistance is now at risk after the humanitarian file has turned into a political battleground between the warring parties: the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), which vie for the legitimacy of granting work permits to organisations.

On Monday morning it was a busy South Sudan hospital. By Tuesday night it was a bombed-out shell

Exclusive: An 80-bed MSF facility was bombed, burned and looted as civil conflict grows. The Guardian visited to witness first-hand the impact of the ‘trend of violence’ against healthcare in the countryThe single-engine Cessna Caravan is flying over Nyirol county, in South Sudan’s Jonglei state. Its five passengers stare intently at the landscape streaking past below as the plane approaches the town of Lankien. On this hot day in late April, a …

US Slaps South Sudan Officials with Visa Bans Over Peace Deal

The U.S. is cracking down on South Sudanese officials accused of undermining a fragile peace deal, announcing visa restrictions on Tuesday over alleged ceasefire obstruction and corruption that Washington claims fueled conflict.

US official urges South Sudan authorities to uphold 2018 peace agreement

On a visit to Juba last week, the head of the US State Department Bureau of African Affairs Nick Checker urged South Sudanese authorities to "take urgent action to restore peace."