Sudan

Severe food insecurity and the spread of preventable mosquito-borne diseases in South Sudan continue to intensify.

Months of war have left Sudanese citizens wanting food and healthcare, according to the United Nations

More than 150 British Armed Forces have taken part in Talisman Sabre. During the exercise, four Australian troops died in a tragic helicopter accident.

Britain's Minister for Development and Africa, Andrew Mitchell, has outlined steps that can be taken to tackle the 'sobering' numbers forcibly displaced around the world.

Around 219,000 pregnant women are living in Khartoum – the epicentre of the Sudan conflict. Attacks on hospitals and healthcare facilities have made for a lack of medical resources and staff shortages.

The UK pledges £143 million to support more than a million people in the Horn of Africa. The committed donor will provide humanitarian aid for people in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, who are witnessing the worst drought in 40 years.

In a joint statement following their meeting in Washington, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicated consensus on the conflict in Ukraine and foreign policy approaches to China.

A volatile political situation spilt over into a power struggle between the main factions of the military regime who currently wield control of the Republic.

Some 2,000 Britons in Sudan had signed on to a Foreign Office list, and anyone eligible was given until early Saturday to reach the airfield.

Britain has ramped up an airlift of its citizens out of war-torn Sudan to Cyprus, racing to evacuate as many as possible in a 72-hour ceasefire window.

According to the Sudanese Doctors Union, only 23 of the 78 hospitals in the capital remain operational. Meanwhile, the UK makes plans to evacuate British diplomats.

Britain launched a large-scale evacuation of its citizens from Sudan on Tuesday, joining other nations racing to get their people out of the North African country after its warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire.

Foreign Office minister Andrew Mitchell rejected comparisons to the chaotic evacuation of Britons after Afghanistan's Taliban took control of Kabul in 2021.

British Foreign Minister James Cleverly will leave New Zealand Friday and cut his Pacific tour short, a spokesperson for New Zealand's Department of Internal Affairs said, as he focuses on coordinating Britain's response to the Sudan crisis.

Human rights groups are mobilising against the death sentence by stoning of a woman in Sudan.

Living in flimsy shelters made of wood and plastic tarp or half-finished concrete buildings, South Sudanese who have returned to Sudan are finding life tougher as their former country's economy tumbles.

Sudan's gold rush wreaks havoc on health

Initially, up to 20,000 refugees, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, will receive notices.

The Khartoum Breast Cancer Care Centre has changed attitudes towards breast cancer in Sudan.

El Al pilots refuse to deport Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers to home countries where they face risk of death.

While North Korea's nuclear ambitions made global headlines, its humanitarian situation received almost no coverage.

Up to 40,000 African refugees, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, are at the risk of deportation or imprisonment in Israel.

38 migrants who landed in Italy have said they underwent degrading and unlawful treatment at the hands of Italian authorities after they refused to give their fingerprints.

A Turkish Airlines flight from Nairobi to Istanbul had to be diverted for an emergency landing after a Wi-Fi network called 'Bomb on board' alarmed passengers.

Torrential rains in neighbouring Ethiopia have swollen the Nile, which flows into Sudan.

Al Hilal Omdurman and Al Merreikh among teams removed from continental football over government interference.

Violence continues in Darfur, in spite of 2010 peace deal to end war that killed some 300,000 people.

Phenomenon known as a 'haboob' left buildings, cars and residents covered in thick blanket of sand.

Warring parties have obstructed humanitarian aid to the rebel-held Nuba Mountains for years.

'I don't mean to be too forward, but the fate of my species literally depends on me,' Sudan's profile reads.