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1 week ago | 
bloomberg.com | Simon Marks |Mohammed Alamin
Smoke from a Rapid Support Forces drone attack in Port Sudan, on May 6. (Bloomberg) -- A major Sudanese naval base was targeted by armed drones, the fourth such raid on the Red Sea coast in as many days, as authorities struggle to tame a blaze at a nearby port that’s crucial to the flow of humanitarian aid.
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1 week ago | 
bloomberg.com | Mohammed Alamin |Simon Marks
Smoke billows after a drone strike on the port of Port Sudan on May 6. (Bloomberg) -- Sudan’s military-backed government formally cut ties with the United Arab Emirates over what it described as “ongoing aggression” in the North African nation’s civil war.
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1 week ago | 
bloomberg.com | Mohammed Alamin |Simon Marks
Smoke rises from the airport of Port Sudan following reported attacks early on May 4. (Bloomberg) -- Armed drones struck the airport and harbor in Sudan’s main coastal city, escalating a deadly conflict between the North African nation’s army and the Rapid Support Forces militia.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Simon Marks |Mohammed Alamin
The International Court of Justice logo. Photographer: Nick Gammon/Getty Images(Bloomberg) -- The International Court of Justice began hearing Sudan’s case of complicity in genocide against the United Arab Emirates for its alleged involvement in the North African country’s brutal civil war, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Sudan accuses the UAE of providing arms and cash to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, which has been fighting its army for control of the country since April 2023.
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1 month ago | 
nz.news.yahoo.com | Simon Marks |Mohammed Alamin
(Bloomberg) -- Sudan’s army recaptured the national capital from the Rapid Support Forces militia, a turning point in a two-year civil war that’s drawn in outside powers and torn apart the resource-rich North African country. Most Read from BloombergThey Built a Secret Apartment in a Mall. Now the Mall Is Dying. Why Did the Government Declare War on My Adorable Tiny Truck? How SUVs Are Making Traffic WorseTrump Slashed International Aid. Geneva Is Feeling the Impact.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Simon Marks |Mohammed Alamin
(Bloomberg) -- Sudan’s army recaptured the national capital from the Rapid Support Forces militia, a turning point in a two-year civil war that’s drawn in outside powers and torn apart the resource-rich North African country. Most Read from BloombergAdvertisementThe advance is a major blow for the RSF, which seized control of swathes of Khartoum and the rest of the nation after the eruption in April 2023 of a conflict that may have killed as many as 150,000 people and displaced millions.
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1 month ago | 
bloomberg.com | Simon Marks |Mohammed Alamin
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Simon Marks |Mohammed Alamin
(Bloomberg) -- Sudan’s army recaptured central Khartoum including the international airport, an official said, edging closer to routing the Rapid Support Forces from the capital in what would be a turning point in the two-year civil war. Most Read from BloombergAdvertisement“The game is over in Khartoum city,” Major-General Zafir Omer said Wednesday by text message.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Simon Marks |Mohammed Alamin |Janine Phakdeetham
(Bloomberg) -- Sudan’s army retook the presidential palace in the capital from the rebel Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group that it’s fought in a brutal civil war for two years — but fighting continued in the city.
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2 months ago | 
bloomberg.com | Mohammed Alamin |Simon Marks
Sudan’s gold industry rebounded last year as the government took steps to bolster revenue amid a civil war, including signing mining deals with companies from China, Russia and Qatar. The North African nation produced 65 tons of bullion in 2024, generating some $1.6 billion in government revenue, data from the state-run Sudanese Mineral Resources Company show.
