Brussels 22.11.2025 Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) welcomed President Trump’s initiative to end the war, affirming full cooperation with international mediation. The group controls roughly one-third of Sudan as conflict continues with the Sudanese Armed Forces. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF) reacted on U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement of his intention to work toward ending…
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Sudan: UK announces £5M aid fund
Brussels 01.10.2025 The Foreign Secretary has today, 1 November, announced £5 million of urgent funding to provide lifesaving support for Sudan. Speaking at the 21st Manama Dialogue Conference in Bahrain, the Foreign Secretary condemned the truly horrifying and utterly intolerable scenes in El-Fasher where 260,000 people, half of whom are children, are trapped in famine-like…
Sudan: RSF investigates violations
Brussels 30.10.2025 The leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has announced an investigation into what he called “violations” committed by his soldiers during the occupation of el-Fasher. The declaration by Gen Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, came after reports of civilian killings following the RSF capture of…
UNGA80: Diplomats seek to end war in Sudan
New York UNGA80 Behind the scenes at the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations, key countries and regional organizations have been coordinating efforts to try to end the horrific war in Sudan, which has created the most devastating humanitarian and displacement crisis in the world. Alan Boswell, the International Crisis Group’s project…
Ethiopia: Egypt protests against GERD
Brussels 11.09.2025 Ethiopia inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a gigantic hydroelectric hydropower plant on the Blue Nile, near the border with Sudan. This monumental project, valued at some $5 billion, will have the capacity to generate up to 5,150 megawatts of electricity, enough to double the country’s current production. With a storage capacity…
Sudan: intensification of attacks
Strasbourg 06.05.2025 Today the explosions and fires rocked Sudan’s wartime capital Port Sudan, a witness said, part of a days-long drone assault that has torched the country’s biggest fuel depots and damaged its primary gateway for humanitarian aid in a major escalation. 🇸🇩 This morning, the RSF launched a major drone assault on Port Sudan,…
Sudan: EU neo-Colonial Syndrome
Brussels 15.04.2025 Today the EU Commissioner Hadja Lahbib participates in the UK high-level international conference on the Republic of the Sudan. In the context of addressing the dramatic humanitarian situation in the country, the European Commission and Member States have pledged €522 million in aid for 2025 at the High-level Conference for Sudan, co-hosted in…
EU: Commissioner Lahbib visits Chad
Brussels 08.04.2025 European Commissioner in charge of preparedness and crisis management Hadja Lahbib will visit Chad this week for a mission focused on the situation of Sudanese refugees. Lahbib will travel April 8 to Adré, on the border with Sudan, where the refugees are searching for safety fleeing the horrors of civil war. Since the…
Sudan: EU joins UN efforts to advance peace
Brussels 26.08.2024 A Ministerial Meeting on Sudan was convened by Germany, France, the United States and the European Union in New York during the United Nations General Assembly High Level Week in support of the Sudanese people and their aspirations for a peaceful, prosperous and democratic future. Participants expressed deep concern about the catastrophic and…
Sudan: EU condemns escalation in El Fasher
Brussels 22.09.2024 The European Union condemns in the strongest possible terms the dramatic escalation of fighting in El Fasher in southwestern Sudan, instigated by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), reads the statement by the EU top diplomat Josep Borrell on the situation in El Fasher, Sudan. (Image: illustration) “Consequences…
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