By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront Photo Source: Arab News During mid-April 2023, there was renewed tension among power brokers in Sudan, namely General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the country’s de facto leader and head of Sudanese Armed Forces and General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemedti, who leads the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). This division between armed men in uniform has led to the latest delays in moving Sudan forward. Since then, horrendous human rights violations have become rampant as low-flying aeroplanes attack the ground. To add more chaos, United Nations and NGO compounds have been looted across the African nation. According to Justin Lynch’s Oped in Foreign Affairs, Sudan is facing a state of collapse similar to Yemen. As the Sudanese Armed Forces had launched an intense bombing campaign in Khartoum, it reflects that the air force in Sudan has been a decisive element in Sudan’s wars, especially beginning in 2003, when the SAF and the prec...

  Photo source: Guardian By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront There has been a wave of killings in the western Darfur region of Sudan, where around one hundred sixty-five people were dead in April 2022. It led to the displacement of a hundred thousand people, which has been a cause of great concern. The human rights situation in Darfur is ugly and goes back  long. Al-Bashir, who has been in prison in Khartoum since he was overthrown in 2019, was indicted more than ten years ago by the International Criminal Court for genocide and crimes against humanity perpetrated in Darfur. Although attacks in Darfur have intensified since 2019, this time around war spread out beyond communal militias into a wider battle between rebel groups, soldiers, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Amid a global funding crunch for aid agencies, it has been hard for aid workers to alleviate the suffering. According to Jairo Gonzales, deputy operations manager in East Africa for Medecins ...

By Naveed Qazi | Editor, Globe Upfront I n Darfur, Western Sudan, the hostilities have been decreasing over the years since 2009, but there is no peace in sight.  The number of rebel factions and armed movements has made it a complex situation, leading to stark ethnic and religious divisions. For years, this rebel movement in Darfur has been bred on local support. On 29 March 2017, the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation (UNAMID), discussed the Darfur meditation. At this meeting, they noted improvement in the situation and called for a review of the “deployment of the mission in the context of the improved environment in Darfur”. There has been no comprehensive peace agreement in Darfur until now. The Darfur conflict started in 2003 when two rebel movements took up arms to protest against the economic and political marginalisation in Sudan. Violence in the Darfur region of Sudan’s far west continues unabated. Some 450,000 persons have...