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​U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) after signing the funding bill to end the U.S. government shutdown, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., November 12, 2025.
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Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner arrives at 10 Downing Street in London, United Kingdom, on Sept. 2, 2025.
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Displaced people ride an animal-drawn cart after Rapid Support Forces attacks on Zamzam displacement camp, in the town of Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan, on April 15, 2025.
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UN’s highest court dismisses Sudan’s claims of Emirati role in Darfur genocide

The International Court of Justice on Monday rejected Sudan’s claims that the United Arab Emirates had violated the Genocide Conventions by allegedly supplying arms to the Rapid Support Forces, a rebel paramilitary group involved in ethnic violence in Darfur.

​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.

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​A boy sits atop a hill overlooking a refugee camp near the Chad-Sudan border, November 9, 2023. Hundreds of Masalit families from Sudan's West Darfur state were relocated here months after fleeing to the Chadian border town of Adre, following an ethnically targeted massacre in the city of El Geneina.
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Sudan’s Masalit people are being butchered. Is the world watching?

On Saturday, the Sudanese Army fended off an attack by the Rapid Support Forces on the city of el-Fasher in the western region of Darfur.

FILE PHOTO: Sudanese refugees who fled the violence in Sudan's Darfur region and newly arrived ride their donkeys looking for space to temporarily settle, near the border between Sudan and Chad in Goungour, Chad May 8, 2023.
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Fears of mass killings rise in Darfur

Genocide once again threatens to devastate Darfur as the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces encircle El Fasher, the last city in North Darfur not under the paramilitary group’s control.

​Women from the city of Al-Junina (West Darfur) cry after receiving the news about the death of their relatives as they waited for them in Chad, Nov. 7, 2023.
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Sudan genocide feared after massacre at refugee camp

Sudan’s ongoing civil war may once again be spiraling into genocide.

Women from the city of Al-Junina (West Darfur) cry after receiving the news about the death of their relatives as they waited for them in Chad, November 7, 2023.
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Sudan’s civil war rages through Darfur

Sudan’s civil war reached a grim turning point this week as Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries solidified their control over the Darfur region in Western Sudan.

A young Darfuri girl carries her sleeping brother at Zam Zam camp in Sudan's North Darfur state
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Sudan’s Darfur region faces repeat of genocidal history

This week, Sudan passed the 100-day mark of brutal fighting between its army and the Rapid Support Forces, a powerful paramilitary group.