Africa

Smoke rises during clashes in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on April 16. "Some hospitals are being targeted by the warring parties," reports Dr. Ghazali Babiker, country director for the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières in Sudan.

Health & Safety

'I am hearing anti-aircraft fire,' says a doctor in Sudan as he depicts medical crisis

12:29pm April 18, 2023

by Andrew Connelly

We spoke to Dr. Ghazali Babiker, country director for Médecins Sans Frontières in Sudan, who is in Khartoum. He offered a grim assessment of the impact of fighting on the ability to give health care.

There has been no let up in the brutal violence that was unleashed in Sudan

8:11am April 18, 2023

Fierce battles that began over the weekend between rival armed factions in Sudan show no sign of slowing down, while many of the civilians of Africa's third largest country remain trapped inside.

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Politics & Government

Morning news brief

5:08am April 18, 2023

The fighting between Sudan's ruling military factions continues for a fourth day. Negotiations on raising the nation's debt ceiling remain stalled. The IRS embarks on a 10-year, $80 billion makeover.

Smoke rises from a central neighborhood of Khartoum, Sudan on Sunday. The Sudanese military and a powerful paramilitary group are battling for control of the chaos-stricken nation.

World News

The view from Sudan's capital, which has seen days of nonstop urban warfare

11:44pm April 17, 2023

by Emmanuel Akinwotu

The citizens of Sudan's capital city Khartoum are trapped inside their homes, hiding from violence that has turned their streets into a war zone, as rival generals fight for power.

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World News

Sudan citizens are hiding from intense fighting between army and paramilitary group

4:58pm April 17, 2023

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Cameron Hudson, former special envoy to Sudan, about the fighting that broke out in the country over the weekend, and what's at stake.

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Satellite image shows thick, black smoke drifting across the city at multiple locations an overview of fires burning in Khartoum on Sunday.

World News

Why two military rivals are in a 'fight to the death' in Sudan

1:15pm April 17, 2023

by Jan Johnson

Fierce fighting has spread outside Sudan's capital, Khartoum, and across the country, as the forces of two warring military leaders battle for control.

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Sudan slips further into chaos: Fighting in the capital continues for a 3rd day

8:03am April 17, 2023

In Sudan's vast capital city Khartoum, residents are forced to spend another day sheltering in place, as full scale urban warfare between rival ruling military factions explodes around them.

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National

Morning news brief

7:43am April 17, 2023

Sudan's military and a paramilitary group battled for control of the nation. A mass shooting rocks an Alabama town. The $1.6 billion Dominion v. Fox News trial is now scheduled to start Tuesday.

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Smoke is seen rising from a neighborhood in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, April 15, 2023. Fierce clashes between Sudan's military and the country's powerful paramilitary erupted in the capital and elsewhere in the African nation after weeks of escalating tensions between the two forces. The fighting raised fears of a wider conflict in the chaos-stricken nation.

World News

Dozens of civilians are dead as rival military factions battle for control of Sudan

9:50pm April 16, 2023

by The Associated Press

Sudan's military and a powerful paramilitary force battled fiercely in the capital and other areas, dealing a new blow to hopes for a transition to democracy and raising fears of a wider conflict.

World News

Sudan is facing a second day of violence as rival military factions fight for power

10:07am April 16, 2023

Rival military factions continue to fight to control Sudan, leading to deadly clashes in the country's capital, with dozens reported dead and hundreds injured.

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