Sudanese army claims major victory in Khartoum
Fighting around Sudan ‘s largest oil refinery set the sprawling complex ablaze, satellite data analyzed by The Associated Press on Saturday shows, sending thick, black smoke over the country’s capital.
Sudanese army chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan visited its strategic headquarters in central Khartoum on Sunday in his first appearance there since government forces claimed to have broken a months-long siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
Meters From Andriivka,” Ukrainian director and journalist Mstyslav Chernov, whose previous film “ 20 Days in Mariupol ” won Best Documentary at the Oscars, once again captures unsettling images from the frontlines of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Khartoum is a poetic documentary that retraces the stories of five Sudanese refugees during the coup and outbreak of the civil war. The film, directed by Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy Ahmad, Tomeea Mohamed Ahmed and Phil Cox, is part of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema Documentary Competition.
The attack on the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital came as the group has seen apparent battlefield losses to the Sudanese military and allied forces under the command of army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan.
Anas Saeed, Rawia Alhag, Ibrahim Snoopy, and Timeea Ahmed are among the 10 million+ people who have been displaced by the ongoing Sudanese Civil War. In Khartoum, they work with British director Phil Cox and five displaced Sudanese to reenact their stories.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - After a week of whirlwind gains for the Sudanese army and allies in the capital Khartoum, leaders hailed a turning point in the civil war, speaking to reporters from inside the army's main headquarters that had been besieged since April 2023.
Around 70 people were killed in an attack on the only functional hospital in the besieged city of El Fasher in Sudan, the chief of the World Health Organization said Sunday, part of a series of attacks coming as the African nation's civil war escalated in recent days.
Mona Ibrahim has already buried two of her children. Mary Lupul, humanitarian director at aid group Save the Children, described seeing "some of the skinniest children" she has ever encountered, with "runny noses and cloudy eyes".
Their country's war rarely tops global news bulletins, and Sudan has never had a film at Sundance before. Ahmad, who has a background in journalism, said he hopes the film can prove more effective than his previous news work,
Karim Khan told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that crimes are being committed in Darfur "as we speak and daily," and are being used as a weapon of war.