‘Crimes against humanity’ in Sudan’s Darfur: ICC deputy prosecutor
The Hague court’s Deputy Prosecutor Nazhat Shameem Khan warns civil war ‘has reached an intolerable state’.
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The waterborne disease has rapidly spread throughout Sudan due to the ongoing civil war.
Obeid hospital suffers severe damage in paramilitary assault, worsening health crisis in Sudan’s civil war.
Aid workers are also having to cope with a wave of cholera outbreaks in war-torn Sudan.
Cholera outbreak is centred around the capital city, Khartoum, which has been devastated by more than two years of war.
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Aid workers fear arrest and worsening of hunger crisis that already threatens millions of people.
Sudan’s army-aligned government denies allegations that it has used chemical weapons in war against paramilitary rivals.
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Sudan’s army says it may be forced to shut down facilities used to export oil from South Sudan as a result of the war.
Video from Sudan showed soldiers celebrating as the army declared Khartoum state “completely free of rebels”.
Announcement comes weeks after the army made gains in and around the capital city to push back the Rapid Support Forces.
Sudan’s devastating war is now entering its third year, and the conflict is far from over.
