Ivor Prickett

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Declan Walsh |Ivor Prickett

At the battle-scarred presidential palace in the heart of Sudan's shattered capital, soldiers gathered under a chandelier on Sunday afternoon, rifles and rocket launchers slung over their shoulders, listening to their orders. Then they trooped out, down a red carpet that once welcomed foreign dignitaries, and into the deserted center of the city on a mission to flush out the last pockets of resistance from the paramilitary fighters with whom they have been clashing for two years.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Jeffrey Gettleman |Ivor Prickett

The three bundled up figures, puny against the vastness of miles of snow, trudged toward a hole they had cut into the ice. Their sled was parked nearby, and the woolly dogs that pulled it were huddled on the frozen ground, barking for food. Man and dog had to move carefully out here. In some places the ice was three feet thick, in others, it cracked like crystal.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Declan Walsh |Ivor Prickett

Sudanese military forces pushed toward the presidential palace in the battle-scarred capital, Khartoum, on Thursday, signaling a potential turning point in Sudan's devastating civil war, now approaching its third year. Video footage showed Sudanese troops about 500 yards east of the palace compound, which overlooks the river Nile, and is controlled by the Rapid Support Forces, or R.S.F., the army's powerful paramilitary rival.

1 month ago | businessandamerica.com | Declan Walsh |Ivor Prickett |Abdalrahman Altayeb |Rebecca Suner

Sudan’s catastrophic civil war and severe humanitarian crisis have entered a new phase as the military battles former allies-turned-rebels for the strategic control of Khartoum. Reporting from the frontline with his colleagues Ivor Prickett and Abdalrahman Altayeb, The New York Times’s Africa chief correspondent, Declan Walsh, details the fierce struggle for the bridges over the Nile and its tributaries that divide the Sudanese capital. Source link

1 month ago | infobae.com | Jeffrey Gettleman |Ivor Prickett

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