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FILE - Mohamed Chande Othman, chair of the of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission, presents its first investigative report to the media during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP, File)

Head of UN-backed team of experts cites paramilitary force in Sudan for sexual violence as war rages

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit which led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, secure the area where Dagalo attends a rally, in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday, June 18, 2019. On Monday, Sudan's protest leaders called for nighttime demonstrations and marches in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere in the country, amid a tense standoff with the ruling military over who should lead the transition after the ouster of the autocrat Omar al-Bashir. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

More than 120 killed in paramilitary rampage in east-central Sudan, U.N. and a doctors group say

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, secure the area where Dagalo attends a military-backed tribe's rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan, on June 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

U.S. sanctions a leader of Sudan’s paramilitary group for fueling a brutal war

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Sudanese Camirata troupe dancers, who lost some of their relatives during the conflict in Sudan, Hoda Othman, right, and Kamal perform Al Saysaed dance from East Sudan during a rehearsal, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Sept.10, 2024. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

In music and dance, Sudanese performers transport refugee audiences back home

By Fatma Khaled - Associated Press

This grab from video shows smoke rising over Khartoum, Sudan on Thursday Sept. 26, 2024, after Sudan’s military started an operation to take areas of the capital from its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. (AP Photo/Rashed Ahmed)

Sudan military offensive sparks new fighting in Khartoum as cholera outbreak worsens

By Fatma Khaled - Associated Press

People line up in front of a bakery during a cease-fire in Khartoum, Sudan, May 27, 2023. (AP photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Cholera is spreading in Sudan as fighting between rival generals shows no sign of abating

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Patients and staff sit and walk around in the Doctors Without Borders-run hospital in Bantiu, South Sudan, Monday, June 24,2024. South Sudan's health system suffers, even though the relative peace gives many women easier access to care. The government allocates less than 2% of the national budget to the health ministry. Much of the health system is propped up by aid groups and the international community. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)

U.N. official says Sudan’s war has killed at least 20,000 people

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Mohamed Chande Othman, chair of the of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission, presents its first investigative report to the media during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Sept. 6, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

U.N.-backed rights experts seek wider arms embargo and ‘impartial force’ deployed to war-torn Sudan

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Macklemore performs at Austin City Limits Live at the Moody Theater during the South by Southwest Music Festival on Friday, March 17, 2023, in Austin, Texas. American rapper Macklemore said Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024, he canceled an upcoming October concert in Dubai over the United Arab Emirates' "role ... in the ongoing genocide and humanitarian crisis" stemming from the war gripping Sudan through its reported support of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces there. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP, File)

American rapper Macklemore says he canceled Dubai show over UAE arming Sudan paramilitary forces

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A woman sorts through floodwaters near her damaged home near the city of Abu Hamdan in Northern Sudan on Aug. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/ Samira Hassan)

Cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed at least 22 people, health minister says

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

A woman sorts through floodwaters near her damaged home near the city of Abu Hamdan in Northern Sudan on Aug. 7, 2024. (AP Photo/ Samira Hassan)

Cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed at least 22 people, health minister says

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Demonstrators hold signs during a rally, on the opening day of peace talks for Sudan, at the Place des Nations in front of the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2024. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

U.S. calls on Sudan military to join talks after it announces border opening

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Sudan's Army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan speaks in Khartoum, Sudan, on Dec. 5, 2022. Sudan’s military said its top commander, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, survived a drone attack on a military graduation ceremony that killed five people in the country’s east. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Sudan’s military says its top commander survived a drone strike that killed 5 at an army ceremony

By Samy Magdy and Fatma Khaled - Associated Press

Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, secure the area where Dagalo attends a military-backed tribe's rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan, on June 22, 2019. An international rights group on Monday accused the paramilitary group in war-torn Sudan of sexual violence against women, including rape, gang rape, and forced and child marriage. A smaller number of incidents were also attributed to the military, it said. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Rights group says sexual violence is rampant in Sudan’s civil war

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council speaks at a ceremony in the capital Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019. Sudan's paramilitary leader has announced plans to attend ceasefire talks in Switzerland next month arranged by the United States and Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo, File)

Sudan paramilitary leader plans to attend cease-fire talks in Switzerland hosted by U.S., Saudi Arab

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Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, secure the area where Dagalo attends a military-backed tribe's rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan, on June 22, 2019. Human rights experts working for the United Nations on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, accused Sudan’s warring parties of using starvation as a war weapon, amid mounting warnings about imminent famine in the African nation. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Independent U.N. experts accuse Sudan’s warring parties of using starvation as weapon

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Sudanese Children suffering from malnutrition are treated at an MSF clinic in Metche Camp, Chad, near the Sudanese border, on April 6, 2024. Families in Sudan’s embattled western region of Darfur finally received an emergency scale-up of food aid and nutrition supplies that are much needed to help avert looming famine, the U.N. food agency said on Thursday, June 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Patricia Simon, File)

Experts warns that 755,000 people at risk of famine in the coming months in war-torn Sudan

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

A man walks by a house hit in recent fighting in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday, April 25, 2023. Sudan has been torn by war for a year now, torn by fighting between the military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Top diplomats meet in Paris to mobilize aid for Sudan, wrecked by war and on the brink of famine

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People board a truck as they leave Khartoum, Sudan, on June 19, 2023. Sudan has been torn by war for a year now, torn by fighting between the military and the notorious paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. (AP Photo, File)

World paid little attention to Sudan’s war for a year. Now aid groups warn of mass death from hunger

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

This handout photo provided by World Relief shows emergency food being distributed by World Food Programme (WFP) and World Relief in Kulbus, West Darfur, Sudan, end of March 2024. The United Nations said Friday, April 5, 2024, it has begun distributing food in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur province for the first time in months, following two successful cross-border operations, but the population still faces widespread starvation unless more help arrives. (World Relief via AP)

First U.N. food supplies make it to Sudan’s Darfur after months but millions face acute hunger

By Jessica Donati - Associated Press