ethnic violence

ADF STAFF The battle to control the Sudanese Armed Forces’ (SAF) Al Shajara Armored Corps base in southeast Khartoum cost dozens of lives and revealed a disturbing new aspect of the ongoing fight between the country’s two warring generals.…

ADF STAFF The United Nations’ Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide is sounding the alarm over “atrocity crimes” in Ethiopia and warning of the risk of widening ethnically based violence. Alice Wairimu Nderitu listed incidents of…

ADF STAFF Peter Kiano, a math professor from South Sudan, had just finished eating breakfast at Khartoum’s Souq Abu Hamama when fighters with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) arrived. Moments later, with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)…

ADF STAFF Since the outbreak of violence in Sudan in April, the flow of weapons smuggled into the heavily armed country has become a flood. “We used to receive a shipment every three months, but now we’re getting one every two weeks,”…

ADF STAFF Abu Bakr al-Iraqi, the leader of Islamic State group (IS) in Sudan, secretly finances his operations through businesses in Turkey, according to a recent report by the United Nations. Investigators reported to the U.N. Security…

ADF STAFF The clash between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) is the latest eruption of military violence in a country that has experienced 35 coups or attempted coups since 1956. Some of the coups…

ADF STAFF At the request of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the withdrawal of the United Nations peacekeeping mission has begun. But experts say the U.N.’s exit is likely to create an opening for armed groups in the east,…

ADF STAFF For nearly five months, forces loyal to Sudan’s warring generals have pounded each other and countless civilians caught between them, killing many and destroying large parts of Khartoum and its sister cities in the process. “The…

ADF STAFF Nine months after a peace deal ended Ethiopia’s two-year conflict in its Tigray region, another violent confrontation is intensifying in the Amhara region. Fighting broke out in early August between the Ethiopian National…

ADF STAFF Dozens of people were killed and crucial infrastructure such as water, electricity and communication lines was damaged after days of fighting in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, and nearby areas in mid-August. The Darfur Bar…