The recapture of Kurmuk is imperative for the army to restrict the RSF’s supply from Ethiopia and check its advance in Blue Nile State, which will secure a gateway to central Sudan.

The war in Sudan is not simply “between two generals, but between two wings of a comprador parasitic capitalist class,” fighting each other against the backdrop of a regional and global contest over Sudan’s land, resources, and geostrategic location on the Red Sea, argues Sidgi Kaballo of the Sudanese Communist Party (SCP).

Once a haven for the displaced, North Darfur’s Tawila is now ground zero for a deadly cholera outbreak.

Mientras la guerra entre las fuerzas de seguridad de Sudán continúa en su vigesimoprimer mes, las bajas aumentan en El Fasher, la capital asediada de Darfur del Norte, que ha quedado aislada de la ayuda alimentaria en medio de una hambruna que se extiende mientras los mercados locales son bombardeados.

As the war between Sudan’s security forces continues into its 21st month, casualties mount in North Darfur’s besieged capital El Fasher, which has been cut off from food aid amid spreading famine while local markets are being bombed.

Amal El Zein, a member of the political bureau of the Sudanese Communist Party, was arrested by military intelligence

The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has been at war with Sudan’s army since April 15, 2023, broke into the family home of Haitham Dafallah, the chief editor of Al-Maydan newspaper, and abducted him along with his brother, on January 19.

“The occupation of our party office is a part of the ongoing attempts by the Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese Armed Forces to silence the voice of the democratic forces that opposed this catastrophic war,” SCP spokesperson Fathi Elfadl told Peoples Dispatch

Los enfrentamientos son los últimos de una serie de convulsiones políticas desde que las masivas protestas prodemocráticas derrocaron al dictador Omar al-Bashir en abril de 2019.

The fighting is the latest in a series of political convulsions since massive pro-democracy protests overthrew long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir in April 2019

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 3,700 people have been injured since fighting broke out on April 15. The humanitarian crisis, including mass displacement, has continued to worsen as multiple ceasefires have failed to hold  

Civilians have been forced to hole up in their homes for days with no supply of water or electricity, as the fighting rages on with increasingly heavier weapons