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Enaam Abdallah Mohammed, 19, a displaced Sudanese woman and mother of four, who fled with her family, looks on inside a camp shelter amid the ongoing conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army, in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan July 30, 2025.
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In Sudan, the skies have turned deadly

Myanmar's military chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing leaves after a military parade on Victory Day, marking the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia, May 9, 2025.
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Russian Minister of Transport Roman Starovoit attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Moscow, Russia January 30, 2025.
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​Nuns walk at St. Peter's Square, ahead of the conclave, at the Vatican, on May 6, 2025.
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​Members of the M23 rebel group stand guard at the opening ceremony of Caisse Generale d'epargne du Congo (CADECO) which will serve as the bank for the city of Goma where all banks have closed since the city was taken by the M23 rebels, in Goma, North Kivu province in the East of the Democratic Republic of Congo, April 7, 2025.
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Does the Congo truce portend peace? Or a potential civil war?

The Democratic Republic of the Congo and an alliance of militias led by the notorious M23 rebels announced a ceasefire on Thursday after talks in Qatar and, after three years of violence, said they would work toward a permanent truce.

​Burkina Faso’s junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore at the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) summit in Niamey, Niger, on July 6, 2024.
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​A displaced Sudanese woman looks on as she sits next children at “Abdallah Nagi” shelter camp in Port Sudan, Sudan, on April 15, 2025.
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Sudan’s forgotten Civil War reaches grim milestone

While the world is flooded with bad news, nowhere is it worse than Sudan, where the civil war hit the two-year mark on Tuesday. The fighting has left 13 million people displaced and over 150,000 dead, and there are reports of genocide in Darfur.

South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar, pictured here addressing the press in 2020.
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South Sudan’s vice president arrested, country on brink of civil war

Alarm bells are ringing ever more loudly in South Sudan, as Vice President Riek Machar — chief rival to Prime Minister Salva Kiir — was arrested late Wednesday in an operation involving 20 armored vehicles at his compound in Juba. He was placed under house arrest, a move that is fueling fears that the country will soon descend into civil war.

​Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan salutes soldiers at the presidential palace in Khartoum, Sudan, on March 26, 2025.
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Khartoum falls to the Sudanese Army, but war rages on

The Sudanese Army says it has captured full control of Khartoum from the Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary group it has been battling in a brutal civil war for over two years. The army has seized key locations, including the presidential palace and the airport.

​FILE PHOTO: Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan arrives at Beijing Capital International Airport before the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit, in Beijing, China September 3, 2024.
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US sanctions Sudanese leader

The United States on Thursday imposed financial sanctions on Sudan's army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan.