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…
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 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…
Sudan Humanitarian Conference
Brussels 12.04.2024 The EU top diplomat Josep Borrell and Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič will travel to Paris on April 15 to participate in the ‘International Humanitarian Conference for Sudan and its Neighbours’, co-organised by the European Union, France and Germany. The event marks one year since the outbreak of the armed conflict, which…
Borrell visit to SA: “testing times”
Brussels 27.01.2023 “…The European Union and South Africa came together to establish a strategic partnership 16 years ago, and South Africa is the only African country that has this qualification of a strategic partner. And the word means something. It is the only partnership on the African continent. This is a recognition of the importance…
Eritrea and Ethiopia to re-establish diplomatic ties
Eritrea and Ethiopia intend to re-establish diplomatic and trade ties after decades of a protracted conflict. Former longtime enemies #Ethiopia & #Eritrea share ‘brotherly embrace’ https://t.co/HZlL3HzvUU pic.twitter.com/v02liIrj85 — RT (@RT_com) July 8, 2018 Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki made the announcement during historic meeting hosted in Eritrean capital Asmara. It…
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