❌

Normale Ansicht

  • ✇The Guardian
  • Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ‘recruited by UK-registered firms’
    Exclusive Guardian investigation finds companies set up by people sanctioned by US hired Colombian fighters for Rapid Support Forces, widely suspected of war crimes in SudanClose to Tottenham Hotspur’s shiny football stadium in London is a squat, nondescript block of flats. It holds a grim secret beyond the unremarkable beige brickwork – a cramped, second-floor apartment in the British capital, linked to murderous atrocities unfolding 3,000 miles south.The one-bedroom flat off north London’s Cre
     

Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ‘recruited by UK-registered firms’

19. Dezember 2025 um 06:00

Exclusive Guardian investigation finds companies set up by people sanctioned by US hired Colombian fighters for Rapid Support Forces, widely suspected of war crimes in Sudan

Close to Tottenham Hotspur’s shiny football stadium in London is a squat, nondescript block of flats. It holds a grim secret beyond the unremarkable beige brickwork – a cramped, second-floor apartment in the British capital, linked to murderous atrocities unfolding 3,000 miles south.

The one-bedroom flat off north London’s Creighton Road is, according to UK government records, tied to a transnational network of companies involved in the mass recruitment of mercenaries to fight in Sudan alongside paramilitaries accused of myriad war crimes and genocide.

Continue reading...

© Composite: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian

© Composite: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian

© Composite: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian

  • ✇The Guardian
  • Drone strike on UN facility in war-torn Sudan leaves six peacekeepers dead
    UN secretary general António Guterres says ‘unjustifiable’ attack on base in city of Kadugli ‘could be war crime’A drone strike has hit a United Nations peacekeeping logistics base in war-torn Sudan, killing six peacekeepers, the UN secretary general António Guterres has said.Eight other peacekeepers were wounded in the strike on Saturday in the city of Kadugli in the central region of Kordofan. All the victims are Bangladeshi nationals, serving in the UN interim security force for Abyei (Unisfa
     

Drone strike on UN facility in war-torn Sudan leaves six peacekeepers dead

13. Dezember 2025 um 21:35

UN secretary general António Guterres says ‘unjustifiable’ attack on base in city of Kadugli ‘could be war crime’

A drone strike has hit a United Nations peacekeeping logistics base in war-torn Sudan, killing six peacekeepers, the UN secretary general António Guterres has said.

Eight other peacekeepers were wounded in the strike on Saturday in the city of Kadugli in the central region of Kordofan. All the victims are Bangladeshi nationals, serving in the UN interim security force for Abyei (Unisfa).

Continue reading...

© Photograph: EPA

© Photograph: EPA

© Photograph: EPA

  • ✇The Guardian
  • UK imposes sanctions on four RSF officers for ‘heinous’ mass killings in Sudan
    Senior commanders accused of atrocities against civilians face asset freezes – but no action against key backer UAE The UK has placed sanctions on four senior commanders of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces suspected of involvement in “heinous” violence against civilians in the city of El Fasher, but decided not to take any action against their key military and diplomatic backer, the United Arab Emirates, or their chief commander.British officials suggested they preferred to use their l
     

UK imposes sanctions on four RSF officers for ‘heinous’ mass killings in Sudan

12. Dezember 2025 um 13:09

Senior commanders accused of atrocities against civilians face asset freezes – but no action against key backer UAE

The UK has placed sanctions on four senior commanders of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces suspected of involvement in “heinous” violence against civilians in the city of El Fasher, but decided not to take any action against their key military and diplomatic backer, the United Arab Emirates, or their chief commander.

British officials suggested they preferred to use their leverage with the UAE and the RSF commander, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, known as Hemedti, privately, but admitted there was little sign of a ceasefire in Sudan’s near three-year civil war.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty

© Photograph: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty

© Photograph: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty

He told the world what was happening in El Fasher. Then they sought him out. How Sudan lost ‘a true hero of the war’

02. November 2025 um 12:00

For months, Mohamed Khamis Douda shared accounts of what life was like under siege. He was killed when RSF fighters finally took the Darfur city, raising fears activists and civil society figures are being hunted down

For months, militiamen on the perimeters of El Fasher have asked those few who managed to escape the besieged Sudanese city whether Mohamed Khamis Douda was still inside. They shared videos threatening to kill him, which, as they hoped, made their way to the activist.

Even as the hunger and fear of living under siege and bombardment made him desperate to leave, Douda remained inside El Fasher, constantly working to let the outside world know what was happening to the people there. Then, on Sunday 26 October, Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces overran the city and it was too late. His friends and family have confirmed to the Guardian that Douda has been killed.

Monday 4 August

I awake each morning tired from the efforts of the previous day. Our first struggle is the merciless hunger and the second is the constant artillery shelling.

Continue reading...

© Photograph: supplied

© Photograph: supplied

© Photograph: supplied

❌