Fierce clashes have erupted in and around Darfur’s El-Fasher which had been relatively calm since the war erupted in Sudan last year between the army and a rival paramilitary force.

Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ali Al-Sadiq Ali rejects Western media allegations that Khartoum received requests from Tehran to build a naval base on the African country’s Red Sea coast.

Reports of sexual assault in Sudan may amount to war crime, the UN says.

The Sudanese Army (SAF) makes its first major advance in 10 months of war with the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), regaining control of part of the key city of Omdurman.

The latest wave of violence has left nearly half of Sudan’s 49 million people in need of humanitarian aid.

Ethnic killings in one city in West Darfur region left up to 15,000 dead, according to a UN report.

Sudan’s army general and de-facto ruler of Sudan, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has turned down the latest reconciliation efforts with his rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), pledging to carry on a nine-month war with the RSF.

The United Nations Security Council has voiced “alarm” at mounting violence in Sudan, as the ongoing civil war in the country has displaced over seven million civilians.

Fresh fighting between the Sudanese army and paramilitaries has engulfed the aid hub of Wad Madani, triggering a new exodus of already-displaced civilians.

The UN warns that "horrible suffering" in Sudan is only growing as more people are displaced.