Sudan has filed a case at the top United Nations court accusing the United Arab Emirates of breaching the genocide convention by arming and funding the rebel paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces in Sudan’s deadly war.

A dispatch from the ICJ on Thursday said Sudan has accused UAE of being complicit in “acts which have been perpetrated by RSF and militias allied with it, including, but not limited to genocide, murder, theft of property, rape, forcible displacement, trespassing, vandalism of public properties, and violation of human rights.”

(AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku) A man walks by a house hit in recent fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, an area torn by fighting between the military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, on April 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File) Children sit and ...

UNICEF said 221 children, including boys, were raped by armed men, according to records compiled by gender-based violence service providers in the North African nation.

The Sudanese army seized the eastern side of a strategic bridge in the capital Khartoum on Tuesday from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). A military statement said army forces regained control of the eastern side of the Manshia Bridge in eastern Khartoum.

Civil society consultant Shamsaddin Dawalbait was among the many inhabitants of Khartoum who left their home after a fierce war had broken out between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in mid-April 2023.

Analysts say SAF retaking the city will turn the tide of the war, and may signal the beginning of the end of a brutal conflict that is approaching its third year. But there are concerns that comes with a heavy price.

The grassroots effort was feeding civilians, but 500 soup kitchens shut down when aid ceased, an activist writes.

A military aircraft crashed outside of the Sudanese capital Khartoum, killing both military personnel and civilians. The army has been engaged in an internal conflict in Sudan for nearly two years.

The fighting, which wrecked the capital, Khartoum, and other urban areas has been marked by atrocities including mass rape and ethnically motivated killings that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, especially in the western region of Darfur ...

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and allies have signed a charter that paved the way for the establishment of a parallel government, as Sudan’s army made advances recently against the rival g

Large parts of Khartoum have been destroyed in street battles as a conflict between the Sudanese military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has left tens of thousands dead and prompted at least 11 million people to flee their homes. The city’s skyline is now in ruins.