Top U.N. Official Pushing to Get Aid Into Stricken Sudanese City

Paramilitaries accused of atrocities pledged to allow international aid and investigators into El Fasher, days after an airstrike hit a United Nations vehicle.

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Atrocities in Sudan Require World’s Attention, U.N. Says

The United Nations’ top human rights body ordered an inquiry into mass killings and sexual violence during the country’s worsening civil war.

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Paramilitary Accepts Sudan Truce Plan, but the Military Has Not

The R.S.F. paramilitary group, facing growing condemnation for atrocities in Darfur, said it had agreed to a cease-fire proposal, but it is not yet clear what the military will do.

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After Fleeing a Massacre, Survivors Encountered Still More Gunfire and Abductions

Thousands of people who witnessed atrocities have tried to escape El Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region since paramilitary fighters seized that city in late October.

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A Massacre Unfolding in Sudan

My colleague Declan Walsh writes about the humanitarian crisis in Darfur — and how the world is now largely looking away.

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Twenty Years Later, Atrocities Haunt Darfur Again

The world seems unable, or unwilling, to do much to stop a new struggle on an old battlefield, as atrocities sweep villages and towns.

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Hundreds Killed in Massacre at Sudanese Hospital, W.H.O. Warns

The hospital had served as the last refuge for many starving or injured civilians in El Fasher, a major battleground in Darfur recently seized by the Rapid Support Forces.

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Sudan’s Military Withdraws From El Fasher in Darfur, Handing City to R.S.F.

Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan confirmed that Sudan’s military had retreated from El Fasher, a decisive shift in control of the country’s sprawling Darfur region.

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Feared Sudanese Warlord Found Guilty at The Hague for Crimes in Darfur

A former Janjaweed militia commander was the first person found guilty by the International Criminal Court for atrocities in Darfur two decades ago.

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I Interviewed a Doctor in Sudan. Days Later, He Was Killed.

Dr. Omar Selik’s raw, urgent testimony from a besieged city cut through the fog of war and crystallized the depravity of the conflict. And then he was gone.

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