KHARTOUM: Sudan’s army claimed on Monday that it had broken a long-running siege imposed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the town of Dilling in South Kordofan, a development that comes amid intensifying fighting across the wider Kordofan region. Read More: Attack on Sudan’s Kordofan funeral kills 40, UN reports In a statement, the military […]
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Sudan’s new PM visits Egypt amid ongoing civil war
Sudan’s Prime Minister Kamil Idris arrived in Cairo on Thursday for his first foreign visit since taking office in May. He was welcomed by Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly. The visit comes as Sudan remains locked in a violent civil war. The conflict continues between the national army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). […]
‘Exit West’ – the doors will take us
There is an endless tension between the desire to leave your home and being coerced to do so. The coercion paves into a completely alien concept of what ‘home’ means, something Saeed and Nadia face in Mohsin Hamid’s (2017) novel, ‘Exit West’. If you’ve read the book, or even if you haven’t, this struggle sounds […]
Child abductions on the rise in South Sudan
ABOKO: Child abductions are on the rise during the ongoing South Sudan civil war as people are turning towards crimes to earn a living, the Associated Press reported on Sunday. According to the report, one child is sold for 20 cattles worth $7,000. Deng Machar, resident of the opposition-held Akobo, said that three of his children, […]
Lebanon museum unveils artefacts looted during civil war
Lebanon’s national museum on Friday unveiled five ancient sculptures, including a Phoenician bull’s head returned by the United States, that were looted during the civil war. The life-size 4th century BC white marble bull’s head, the star artefact among the works that were all looted in 1981, had been loaned to New York’s Metropolitan Museum […]