Hafiz Haroun

Nairobi

Journalist at Freelance

Contributor at The New Humanitarian

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Drone strikes pummel Port Sudan in dramatic escalation of civil war

1 month ago | washingtonpost.com | Katharine Houreld |Hafiz Haroun

Drone strikes pummel Port Sudan in dramatic escalation of civil war (washingtonpost.com) Drone strikes pummel Port Sudan in dramatic escalation of civil war By Katharine Houreld; Hafiz Haroun 2025050612010400 Drone strikes hit multiple targets in Sudan on Tuesday, including the country's only functional international airport, oil terminals, an electricity station and a hotel, marking the third day of strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces on the military stronghold of Port Sudan, a...
Mass displacement and horrific eyewitness accounts follow Sudan camp attack

2 months ago | bostonglobe.com | Katharine Houreld |Hafiz Haroun

Tens of thousands of people have fled attacks on camps for displaced families in Sudan, the United Nations’ migration agency says, as eyewitnesses and survivors described horrific scenes from a refugee camp attacked by paramilitary forces and as the conflict, described as the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, reached its second anniversary.
Mass displacement, horrific eyewitness accounts follow Sudan camp attack

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Katharine Houreld |Hafiz Haroun

Mass displacement, horrific eyewitness accounts follow Sudan camp attack (washingtonpost.com) Mass displacement, horrific eyewitness accounts follow Sudan camp attack By Katharine Houreld; Hafiz Haroun 2025041514492500 Tens of thousands of people have fled attacks on camps for displaced families in Sudan, the United Nations' migration agency says, as eyewitnesses and survivors described an onslaught by paramilitary forces just days before the second anniversary of a civil war seen as the...
Sudan paramilitary kills dozens, including 9 aid workers, health official says

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Katharine Houreld |Hafiz Haroun

Sudan paramilitary kills dozens, including 9 aid workers, health official says (washingtonpost.com) Sudan paramilitary kills dozens, including 9 aid workers, health official says By Katharine Houreld; Hafiz Haroun 2025041214354200 A Sudanese paramilitary force has killed around 100 civilians, including nine aid workers, in an attack on a famine-struck camp for displaced families, a regional health official said on Saturday.
Sudan military says it has seized back control of capital city from paramilitary

Mar 26, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Katharine Houreld |Hafiz Haroun

The Sudanese military recaptured the capital of Khartoum on Wednesday, the military chief announced, a significant victory nearly two years into the civil war that has killed more than 150,000 people and created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. There was no immediate comment from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), but footage published on social media showed fighters streaming out of the city on a bridge on foot.
Sudan’s military says it has retaken presidential palace from rebels

Mar 21, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Victoria Bisset |Hafiz Haroun

The Sudanese military said Friday that it has retaken the presidential palace — the seat of government in the capital, Khartoum — after almost two years of a brutal civil war that the United States says has killed more than 150,000 people and unleashed what the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) describes as the world’s largest and most devastating humanitarian crisis. Brig. Gen.
Sudan’s Military Recaptured a City. Bodies Soon Filled the Streets.

Jan 21, 2025 | rsn.org | Katharine Houreld |Hafiz Haroun |Jonathan Baran

Videos verified by The Post show retaliatory killings by Sudan’s military after it recaptured the southern city of Wad Madani from the RSF paramilitary. A group of soldiers forces a rope into a man’s mouth, then throws him off a bridge and shoots at him in the water. Dozens of young men, all dead, lay shoeless in jumbled piles. A soldier leans over a bound and writhing captive, sawing at his neck with a blade until his screams fall silent.
Sudan’s military recaptured a city. Bodies soon filled the streets.

Jan 18, 2025 | washingtonpost.com | Katharine Houreld |Hafiz Haroun |Jonathan Baran

A group of soldiers forces a rope into a man’s mouth, then throws him off a bridge and shoots at him in the water. Dozens of young men, all dead, lay shoeless in jumbled piles. A soldier leans over a bound and writhing captive, sawing at his neck with a blade until his screams fall silent.
A commander swapped sides in Sudan’s civil war. His community paid in blood.

Nov 1, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Katharine Houreld |Hafiz Haroun

The first harrowing accounts are trickling out about a series of punitive raids over the last week of October on villages in Sudan’s southern Gezira state, from survivors who had to trudge days through the scorching desert to reach help. A rights group reports women being gang-raped in front of their families, the shame driving some to suicide. Men who tried to protect them were shot, a witness tells The Washington Post.
Sudan’s civil war fueled by secret arms shipments from UAE and Iran

Oct 15, 2024 | detroitnews.com | Katharine Houreld |Hafiz Haroun

Sudan’s civil war fueled by secret arms shipments from UAE and IranKatharine Houreld, Hafiz Haroun | Washington PostOmdurman, Sudan - Sudan’s devastating civil war is being fueled in part by weapons secretly supplied to both sides by foreign countries, including munitions and drones from the United Arab Emirates and Iran, according to confidential assessments, a State Department funded report and evidence collected from captured weapons in Sudan.