- In this Feb. 12 2016 file photo, UN forces from Rwanda patrol the streets of Bangui, Central African Republic.

Three United Nations agencies warned on Thursday of looming famine in an area of South Sudan facing violent conflict.

UN fact-finding mission says Sudan conflict escalating, aid weaponised. The crisis in Sudan has become ‘a grave human rights and protection emergency’, the United Nations mission says.

Two years into the brutal power struggle between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, peace efforts ...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk sounded the alarm on Friday over escalating violence across Sudan’s North Darfur and Kordofan regions, warning of catastrophic consequences for ...

The risk of famine in Sudan has extended close to the capital Khartoum, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has warned as the country’s brutal civil war grinds on into its third year.

On April 14, 2025 United Nations experts warned that Sudan is experiencing “the most extreme hunger crisis globally”. This statement added that “without immediate humanitarian intervention… ...

Five members of a United Nations convoy carrying humanitarian supplies to an embattled city in southwestern Sudan were killed in an attack that injured other aid personnel and burned many of the ...

Five aid workers were killed in an attack on a convoy in Sudan, preventing food deliveries to families who face starvation in the war-torn Darfur region, UN agencies said on Tuesday.. The attack ...

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights Council (UNHRC) warned on Friday that the current regional instability in South Sudan could result in a 'collapse' of the 2018 Revitalized Peace ...

Khartoum, Sudan: More than four million people have fled Sudan since the start of the conflict in 2023, the United Nations said Tuesday, calling the figure a "devastating milestone".

A UN aid convoy en route to el-Fasher in Sudan's Darfur region was attacked, resulting in the deaths of five aid workers. Unicef and WFP jointly reported the incident, condemning it as a violation ...