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World 30 Mar 2025 | 10:33 AM

Sudan's paramilitary RSF chief says war with army is not over

CAIRO (Reuters) - The leader of Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, said on Sunday that his war against the army was not over and his forces would return to Khartoum despite being largely driven out of the capital.

World 26 Mar 2025 | 10:02 AM

Sudanese army drives RSF from central Khartoum, witnesses say

DUBAI (Reuters) - The Sudanese army drove its rival Rapid Support Forces from most of Khartoum city, residents said on Wednesday, as the army chief toured the presidential palace and airport, marking a major military gain though the wider war looks far from over.

World 27 Mar 2025 | 12:09 PM

Sudan's army shells Omdurman in push to oust RSF from capital region

DUBAI (Reuters) - The Sudanese army shelled parts of Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman from early morning on Thursday, residents said, after declaring victory over their Rapid Support Forces rivals in a two-year battle for the capital.

World 25 Mar 2025 | 10:00 AM

Sudan's RSF squeezing relief supplies as famine spreads, aid workers say

(Reuters) - A Sudanese paramilitary force locked in a war with the army has placed new constraints on aid deliveries to territories where it is seeking to cement its control, including areas where famine is spreading, humanitarian workers say.

World 20 Mar 2025 | 06:12 AM

Sudan army close to taking control of Presidential Palace from RSF, state TV says

(Reuters) -Sudan's army is close to taking control of the Presidential Palace in Khartoum from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, state TV reported on Thursday, in a significant milestone in a two-year-old conflict that threatens to fracture the country.

World 28 Feb 2025 | 12:05 PM

Sudan parallel government offers route to diplomatic leverage and arms for RSF

(Reuters) - A parallel government being set up by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) aims to grab diplomatic legitimacy from its army-led rival and ease access to advanced weaponry, politicians who back it and paramilitary sources told Reuters.

World 28 Feb 2025 | 01:22 PM

Sudanese army ally claims major interception of RSF military supplies

CAIRO (Reuters) - Forces fighting alongside Sudan's army said on Friday they had intercepted a substantial quantity of military supplies from a convoy destined for the rival Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in North Darfur.

World 14 Feb 2025 | 04:24 PM

Sudan's RSF attacks famine-stricken camp as battle lines harden

CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) -Sudan's Rapid Support Forces have attacked the famine-stricken Zamzam displacement camp, residents and medics say, as the paramilitary tries to tighten its grip on its Darfur stronghold while losing ground to the army in the capital, Khartoum.

World 26 Jan 2025 | 12:59 PM

Sudan army chief visits Khartoum headquarters, vows to defeat RSF paramilitary

CAIRO (Reuters) - 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).

World 18 Feb 2025 | 09:07 AM

Sudan's RSF kill more than 200 in White Nile, lawyers say

(Reuters) - Sudan's RSF have killed more than 200 people in attacks on villages around the town of al-Gitaina in White Nile state over the past three days, an activist group said.

World 24 Jan 2025 | 07:18 PM

Sudanese army claims major victory in Khartoum; RSF disputes

CAIRO (Reuters) -The Sudanese army has broken a siege by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces of its command centre in central Khartoum, the army said on Friday, in what would be a major victory in the capital after nearly two years of war.

World 1 Feb 2025 | 02:46 PM

At least 54 people killed in Sudan in RSF attack on market, health ministry says

(Reuters) - At least 54 people were killed and 158 wounded on Saturday in a strike by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on a popular market in the city of Omdurman, the health ministry said in a statement.

World 11 Jan 2025 | 04:35 PM

Sudanese army advances to retake city of Wad Madani from RSF

CAIRO (Reuters) -Sudan's army said on Saturday it had entered the central city of Wad Madani and was pushing out its paramilitary rivals the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a step which if completed successfully would be its biggest gain in nearly two years of war.

World 7 Jan 2025 | 03:13 PM

US determines Sudan's RSF committed genocide, imposes sanctions on leader

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States determined on Tuesday that members of Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied militias committed genocide in Sudan and it imposed sanctions on the group's leader over a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and driven millions from their homes.

World 20 Dec 2024 | 04:14 PM

Sudan's RSF fighters say they plan to work with a new government, raising partition fears

DUBAI/CAIRO (Reuters) - Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fighters have said they will work with a planned new government to oversee territories they control, the starkest move they have made towards a partition of the country after 20 months of civil war.

World 19 Dec 2024 | 06:11 PM

Exclusive-Biden to report to US Congress on UAE assurance it is not supplying weapons to Sudan RSF

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration will provide U.S. lawmakers an assessment by Jan. 17 on the credibility of assurances by the United Arab Emirates that it is not providing - and will not provide - weapons to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday.

World 26 Oct 2024 | 02:26 PM

At least 124 killed after Sudan's RSF attack village, activists say

CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) - Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed at least 124 people in a village in El Gezira State on Friday, activists said, in one of the deadliest incidents of an 18-month war and largest in a spate of attacks in the state.

World 29 Mar 2025 | 12:31 PM

Sudan's army takes major market as it extends control over capital

CAIRO (Reuters) - The Sudanese army said on Saturday it had taken control of a major market in Khartoum's twin city of Omdurman, which had previously been used by their Rapid Support Forces (RSF) rivals to launch attacks during a devastating two-year-old war.

World 4 Nov 2024 | 01:55 PM

Sudan's RSF chases civilians out of villages in violent raids

NEW HALFA, Sudan (Reuters) -Salwa Abdallah was recuperating from a caesarean section and tending to her one-month old baby when soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces barged into her home in Sudan's eastern El Gezira state late last month.

World 21 Sept 2024 | 04:24 PM

UN chief Guterres 'gravely alarmed' by reports of RSF assault on al-Fashir

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "gravely alarmed" by reports of a full-scale assault on the Sudanese city of al-Fashir by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and called on its leader to halt the attack immediately, a U.N. spokesperson said on Saturday.

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