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TopicSudan war

Topic: Sudan war

Trump calls it ‘most violent place on Earth’. In Sudan, sexual violence & starvation are weapons

The two central figures are Sudan army chief Gen Abdel Fattah al‑Burhan & Rapid Support Forces head Mohd Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemedti. Both started out together but fell out later.

SubscriberWrites: How the British Empire engineered today’s border conflicts

From Kashmir to Palestine, many modern border conflicts trace their roots to Britain’s imperial exits—hasty, divisive, and devastatingly enduring.

Sudan is burning and foreign powers are benefiting. UAE is the most interested

UAE is the foreign player most invested in the war. It views resource-rich, strategically located Sudan as an opportunity to expand its influence and control in the MENA region.

RSF accused of village massacre amid Sudan civil war & other global news you may have missed

ThePrint’s round-up of world news and topical issues over the past week.

Darfur’s El-Fasher is on ‘precipice of large-scale massacre’. What’s the conflict in Sudan

Paramilitary RSF, embroiled in bloody conflict with Sudanese Armed Forces, is advancing to capture El Fasher in Darfur. The war, raging for a year, has international implications too.

Sudan’s landmark skyscraper over River Nile burns in flames as war enters sixth month

The RSF accused the army of targeting it along with other important buildings amid efforts to dislodge paramilitary fighters from positions they occupied across Khartoum.

Thousands of Islamists battling alongside army in Sudan conflict, military sources say

Army and paramilitary force are fighting each other in Sudan for 10 weeks, displacing 2.5 million people, causing a humanitarian crisis and threatening to destabilize the region.

Pandemic, Sudan strife leave Karnataka’s Hakki Pikki healers struggling — ‘debts up to our nose’

For decades, Hakki Pikkis have been going abroad to sell herbal medicine. But business has been hit hard in last few years and a mountain of debt now threatens to drown them.

Invisible victims of Sudan war–dozens of babies die in orphanage with grim toll in Khartoum

At least 50 children - at least two dozen of them babies - have died at the orphanage in the six weeks since the war broke out in mid-April.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.