Sudan

[Dabanga] Khartoum / Port Sudan -- Elements of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) detained a group of residents of the El Omda neighbourhood in old Omdurman last week. On Saturday, a number of people, including a journalist, were held from their homes in eastern Khartoum on Saturday. In Port Sudan, capital of Red Sea state, a member of the Sudanese Teachers' Committee, was taken by Military Intelligence to an unknown destination on Friday. The General Intelligence Service (GIS) has accused RSF leaders of foreign currency speculation.

[Dabanga] Khartoum / Nyala / El Fasher / El Obeid -- Battles between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) continued in large parts of Khartoum state on Sunday. In the South Darfur capital Nyala, fierce fighting resumed over the weekend. In El Fasher, North Darfur, a woman was gang-raped, and houses were plundered. The road between En Nehoud and Kosti is reportedly the 'most dangerous one' in the country.

[The Conversation Africa] There has been a continued escalation in fighting between Sudan's army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. The destruction of the capital Khartoum continues - physically, economically, socially and culturally - as buildings are bombarded and homes looted. One of the city's landmark skyscrapers, the Greater Nile Petroleum Oil Company Tower, was recently engulfed in flames. We asked three Sudanese architecture experts - Amira Osman, Akram Elkhalifa and Tallal Abdalbasit Saeed - about the skyscraper

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), millions of people - particularly in Khartoum, Darfur and Kordofan - have no access to food, water, shelter, electricity, education or health care

Over 1,200 children have died in Sudan refugee camps since May, while thousands of newborns are likely to die across the war-torn country by year-end, the UN alerted Tuesday (Sep. 18). Most deaths could have been prevented as they were linked to suspected measles and underlying malnutrition.

These statistics come amidst an ominous warning that thousands more, including vulnerable newborns, teeter on the brink of peril as we approach the year's end.