Sudan

ADF STAFF After nearly eight months of fighting, Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) appears to be consolidating its control over the five states of the Darfur region along with parts of the capital, Khartoum. At the same time, the…

ADF STAFF The tapering sides and glass façade of Khartoum’s Greater Nile Petroleum Company evoke a jet flame of gas burning in Sudan’s oil fields. Its location at the confluence of the White and Blue Nile made the tower an eye-catching…

ADF STAFF The vicious cycle of conflict and hunger continues in some of Africa’s war-torn regions. Nowhere was it worse in 2023 than in Burkina Faso, Mali, Somalia and South Sudan. They are the only countries in the world designated as…

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 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 The Sahel and West Africa have seen their share of crowds waving Russian flags, chanting, and holding posters with pro-Russian and anti-French sentiments. When a few dozen youths held a “freedom rally” in Diabene community park…

ADF STAFF The recent military coup in Niger has not made life easier for Nigeriens or people in the wider region. Economic sanctions closed the bustling border between Niger and Nigeria, halting roughly $1.3 billion worth of annual trade.…

ADF STAFF Kibsa Ouedraogo is chief of Noaka, a community in north-central Burkina Faso that is surrounded by artisanal gold mines that have become magnets for terrorists. “The terrorists hear that this site or that one is thriving with…

ADF STAFF In response to brutal attacks against civilians by militia members, some of Sudan’s pro-democracy groups who once protested the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have rallied to support it. In the six months since fighting erupted…

ADF STAFF Rising intercommunal violence and a war in neighboring Sudan threaten South Sudan’s fragile five-year peace deal, experts say. Against this backdrop, the Advocacy Unit of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in…