“It never gets easier to watch people die from space,” says a weary Nathaniel Raymond. The veteran human rights investigator is monitoring the enciriclement of the Sudanese city of El Fasher in almost-real-time, via high-resolution satellite images. The capital of the state of North Darfur could be about to fall to the paramilitary Rapid Support … Read more
Canada is committing another $132.2 million in humanitarian funding to help people displaced by the violent conflict in Sudan that has been raging for the past year, the government announced Friday. The conflict has killed thousands of civilians, forced millions of people to flee within Sudan and to neighbouring African countries and created one of … Read more
Canada has yet to reunite a single family with relatives who are trying to escape conflict-racked Sudan, while diaspora groups are demanding the federal government do more to end a yearlong civil war. The fighting that erupted last April between duelling militias in the northeastern African country has forced out at least 8.5 million people … Read more
The UN on Friday called for more financial support for aid operations in Sudan. United Nations, US: The United Nations appealed Friday for Sudan’s battling factions to allow delivery of humanitarian relief to fend off looming “catastrophic” hunger. Some five million Sudanese could face calamitous food insecurity in coming months as a nearly yearlong war … Read more
Between 10,000 and 15,000 people were killed in one city in Sudan’s West Darfur region last year in ethnic violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied Arab militia, according to a United Nations report seen by Reuters on Friday. In the report to the U.N. Security Council, independent U.N. sanctions monitors attributed the toll … Read more
Canada will allow people in Sudan who have relatives in Canada to reunite with their families through a new humanitarian pathway as the violent conflict in the African nation continues, Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced Thursday. Miller said in a statement that children, grandchildren, parents, grandparents and siblings of Canadian citizens or permanent residents will … Read more
