What’s happening in Sudan’s civil war? | Start Here

After more than a year of civil war, Sudan is facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian disasters. Thousands of people have been killed, millions displaced and children are dying of hunger. In the western region of Darfur, an old conflict has been reignited, and there are new warnings about the risk of genocide in the fight for the city of el-Fasher.

Sudan humanitarian crisis: Fighting has displaced millions of people

In Sudan's eastern city of Port Sudan, a new displacement camp has opened, housing thousands who fled conflict between the Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces. The conflict has caused Sudan's largest displacement crisis, with 9 million internally displaced according to the UN.

Sudan: A savage war and toxic information battle

Domestic rivalries and external players pollute the Sudanese information space.

A year into the civil war in Sudan, the humanitarian costs have been staggering – but the news coverage has been minimal.

A conflict on this scale should top the news agenda but it has been relegated to the back pages – in part – because of what is happening in Gaza and Ukraine. And it is increasingly difficult to deny that the lack of media interest in this war comes down to where it is being fought and how it is understood.

Why Sudan is the world's largest crisis of displaced people

Today marks the first anniversary of the start of Sudan's civil war - which has killed thousands and triggered the world's largest crisis of displaced people. An international donors conference is being held in Paris, with the United Nations appealing for billions of euros in aid. The UN says some 18 million people - a third of Sudan's population - need food assistance for their survival.

Fighting in Sudan threatens to destabilize entire region | DW News

 

The UN is warning Sudan is on the brink of a full-scale civil war that could destabilize the entire region - as fighting between rival generals shows no sign of easing. In the latest flare-up an airstrike on a residential area in the city of the Omdurman killed at least 22 civilians. It's one of the worst attacks in the 3-month conflict. The fighting between Sudan's military ruler and a powerful para-military group has already displaced about three million people. Egypt is to host a summit of Sudan's neighbors next week.

Sudan unrest: footage shows scale of destruction in Khartoum

 

Drive-by footage from Khartoum shows battle-damaged buildings in the region, with residents reporting sporadic explosions, gunfire and airstrikes. Thousands of residents fled the Sudanese capital on Monday, risking long, dangerous journeys to escape continued street battles and airstrikes that continue to cause significant civilian casualties

Ethiopia's warring parties agree to ceasefire after two years of civil war

 

Ethiopia's government forces have reached a truce mediated by the African Union with rebel Tigrayan forces, after a two-year conflict caused a humanitarian crisis in the region. The AU special broker Olusegun Obasanjo said in a Wednesday statement in Pretoria that the fighting parties have also agreed to "systematic, orderly, smooth and coordinated disarmament." Obasandjo has been mediating peace talks since late October.

The young rebels fighting for democracy in Myanmar

 

Myanmar is now in a state of civil war. What started in February 2021 as a mass protest movement against the military coup is now an armed uprising.

The junta is under attack across the country from a loose network of civilian militias called the People’s Defence Forces.

They’re fighting to create a democratic Myanmar.

The BBC gained rare access to the rebel jungle training camps where young protesters have been turned into soldiers.

They're up against a well-trained military, armed by Russia and China, that’s willing to use brutal tactics to hold on to power.

As the death toll mounts and the world looks away, can this people’s movement win?

Six dead as Beirut gripped by worst street violence in 13 years

 

At least six people have died in Beirut’s worst street violence in 13 years, as hundreds of armed militia men took to the streets and much of the city was forced into lockdown by heavy fighting.

The bloody violence took on a sectarian tone that invoked images of the Lebanese civil war and alarmed residents who had long feared that the multiple crises ravaging the country could spark a deadly conflagration.

The trigger for the clashes in neighbourhoods near the justice courts, which left dozens more injured, was a protest by members of Amal and Hezbollah, two predominantly Shia political parties, against a judicial probe into the massive blast in the city’s port last year.

This is the second time that the judge appointed to investigate the port explosion has been pressured to resign.  It would seem that those opposed to the investigation have the most exposure for being blamed over their failure to rectify the situation.     

Syria: Who kidnapped human rights activist Razan Zaitouneh?

 

Activist Razan Zaitouneh made enemies on all sides by standing up for human rights during the Syrian Civil War. She was kidnapped in 2013 together with her husband Wael Hamada, and her colleagues activist Samira Khalil and lawyer Nazem Hamadi.

Myanmar police defect to anti-government militias as civil war looms

 

As Myanmar heads towards a new civil war, the police are coming under intense pressure to decide whether to stay loyal to the military or join the civilian militia, the People’s Defence Force.

US withdrawal from Afghanistan 'could lead to civil war'

 US President Joe Biden is set to announce that American troops will leave Afghanistan by 11 September, officials have told US media.

Can justice be served 12 years after Sri Lanka’s civil war ended?

 

UN’s human rights chief said Sri Lankan government is failing to pursue those responsible for war crimes.

The United Nations is accusing Sri Lanka of denying justice to victims 12 years after the end of the civil war.

The UN’s human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said the Sri Lankan government is failing to pursue those responsible for war crimes.

Twenty-six years of conflict left 100,000 people dead and at least 20,000 missing.

Bachelet warned human rights could be further eroded.

How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history

The United Daughters of the Confederacy was a significant leader of the “Lost Cause,” an intellectual movement that revised history to look more favorably on the South after the American Civil War. They were women from elite antebellum families that used their social and political clout to fundraise and pressure local governments to erect monuments that memorialized Confederate heroes. They also formed textbook review committees that monitored what Southern schoolchildren learned about the war. Their influential work with children created a lasting memory of the Confederate cause, and those generations grew up to be the segregationists of the Jim Crow Era in the South.

Critics Slam Trump for Support of Confederate Traitors

As President Donald J Trump Press Secretary pointed out, President Trump has no intention of renaming Ft. Bragg and numerous other military bases named after Confederate traitors. This comes on the heels of numerous Confederate statues being removes and the Confederate flag, the stars and bars, being banned in an increasing number of places.

Yemen ravaged by coronavirus — intensifying world’s worst humanitarian crisis

Covid-19 has brought Yemen’s health system to a complete collapse according to the medical charity Doctors Without Borders. The number of deaths in the country — which was already wracked by civil war — is almost impossible to determine.

How a propaganda campaign to minimize slavery’s role in the civil war became American history

How a propaganda campaign to minimize slavery’s role in the civil war became American history

What’s Happening with the War in Libya?

There’s an intense battle for Libya’s capital Tripoli that’s killed more than 200 civilians and displaced thousands of people. The offensive is being led by a renegade general named Khalifa Haftar who’s fighting militias loyal to the UN-recognised Government of National Accord. But who is Haftar, which countries support him and which world powers back the GNA? Start Here explains what’s behind the fight for Libya and why the international community has struggled to stop it.

How Beirut's Commodore Hotel became a safe haven for world media

Street fighting, sieges and kidnappings were all part of Lebanon's 15-year civil war, witnessed by the iconic hotel.

After the fighting in the Lebanese Civil War had led to the destruction of several of Beirut's famous luxury hotels like the Holiday Inn, Phoenicia, St Georges, the Commodore became the news media's hotel of choice. Located deep in West Beirut, it was tucked between taller buildings that usually took the brunt of shell and mortar fire.

When the war broke out in 1975 between right-wing Christian parties supported by Israel and the United States fighting left-wing Muslim groups allied with Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), Beirut's hotel district became a war zone. The warring factions vied to establish a foothold in the district's high-rise hotels which often offered snipers a vantage point and other fighters strategic positions to launch attacks.

How the Holiday Inn became a symbol of the Lebanese Civil War

A symbol of jet set prewar Beirut, the empty, shell-scarred building still towers above glitzy downtown.

For over 40 years, the skeletal remains of the Holiday Inn have stood in central Beirut, a constant reminder of the devastating Lebanese Civil War from 1975 to 1990. The 26-storey hotel opened in 1974 when the city was still a glamorous Middle East tourist destination. Its hotel district was "the playground for celebrities, politicians, diplomats and spies," according to political geographer Sara Fregonese. 

However, all of that changed in 1975 when the war erupted. On one side, Lebanese right-wing parties backed by the United States, aimed to expel armed Palestinian groups from Lebanon. On the other were left-wing parties allied with Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and backed by the Soviet Union - who saw the right-wing Christians as an extension of Israeli and American influence in Lebanon.