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The Sudanese army said it had retaken Kulbus, a strategic town near the Chadian border, in what appeared to be its biggest battlefield gain in western Darfur since the fall of El-Fasher last year.

Hundreds of women and children and dozens of doctors among those detained by the rebel group in poor conditions, says Sudan Doctors Network.

A network of Colombian mercenaries backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) provided critical support to Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) enabling it to capture the western city of el-Fasher last year, a new report says. The investigation, by security analysis organisation the Conflict Insights Group (CIG), used data obtained from tracking the mobile phones of the Colombian fighters.

Three years into the devastating conflict in Sudan, nearly four million displaced people have returned to their places of origin across the country, only to face “another struggle for survival”, the UN International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday. IOM Deputy Director General Sung Ah Lee said that returns were concentrated mainly in the capital Khartoum and neighbouring Al Jazirah state, where she was speaking to reporters.

Germany hosted an international conference on Wednesday to raise funds to help those affected by the war in Sudan.

The international community has failed in Sudan, British Foreign Minister Yvette Cooper said on the sidelines of a Berlin conference on the war in the country, as she called for ⁠an international concerted effort to stop the arms flow.

[…] In 2026, more than 30 million people in the country need humanitarian assistance and over 15 million have been displaced. The EU and its Member States are the largest humanitarian donor for Sudan, helping with food distribution, nutrition, health, water, and other areas of need. Nonetheless, humanitarian assistance in Sudan generally faces several critical challenges. 

As Sudan’s war moves into a fourth year, civilians are still being killed, displaced and subjected to widespread sexual violence, the UN’s top humanitarian official in the country warned on Monday, calling for urgent action to stop the fighting and protect civilians.

Forces affiliated with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have arbitrarily detained and tortured civilians in areas under their control, leading a campaign of retaliation against perceived opponents, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday.

This week on Hold Your Fire!, ICG Executive Vice President Richard Atwood speaks with Crisis Group experts Shewit Woldemichael and Alan Boswell to discuss Sudan’s war after three years of fighting, the Gulf war’s impact and what hope exists for a ceasefire.