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Omer al-Toum, 33, who lost his leg and arm by the explosion of unexploded ordnance, sits in his bedroom in Bahri, on the outskirts of Khartoum, Thursday, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

The scars of war among survivors in Sudan

By Sam Mednick, Fay Abuelgasim and Bernat Armangue - Associated Press

Staff from Sudan's Forensic Medicine Corporation exhume the body of Mohammed Alsawi, 73, who was killed in 2023 by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, in Omdurman, Sudan, Monday, April 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Sudan’s war has left thousands missing. Many are buried in unmarked graves

By Sam Mednick - Associated Press

A guard walks through a war-damaged section of Al Shaabi Hospital in Khartoum, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

How a surgeon kept a Sudan hospital functioning on the war’s front line

By Sam Mednick and Fay Abuelgasim - Associated Press

This photo released by UNICEF shows displaced children and families from el-Fasher at a displacement camp where they sought refuge from fighting between government forces and the RSF, in Tawila, Darfur region, Sudan, Monday, Oct. 27, 2025. (Mohammed Jammal/UNICEF via AP)

Militia attack on hospital in Darfur came in waves, WHO says

By Sarah El Deeb and Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

FILE - Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok speaks during a session of the summit to support Sudan, at the Grand Palais Ephemere in Paris on May 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool, File)

Sudan’s former prime minister Hamdok says recent military gains won’t end the war

By Sam Metz - Associated Press

People fill water containers at a distribution point due to water outages in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, May 25, 2025. (AP Photo)

A new cholera outbreak in Sudan has killed over 170 people in a week, officials say

By Fatma Khaled and Samy Magdy - Associated Press

This satellite picture from Planet Labs PBC shows the Republican Palace, center, in Khartoum, Sudan, March 15, 2025 (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Sudan’s military says it has retaken Khartoum’s Republican Palace, seat of country’s government

By Sam Magdy and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the Saudi Teaching Maternal Hospital, center, in El Fasher, Sudan, Saturday, Jan. 25, 2025. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

About 70 people killed in attack on hospital in Sudan’s Darfur region, WHO chief says

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

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

Sudan's Army chief Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan speaks in Khartoum, Sudan, on Dec. 5, 2022. Sudan’s warring generals Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan and Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, agreed to hold a face-to-face meeting as part of efforts to establish a cease-fire and initiate political talks to end the country’s devastating war, an African regional bloc said Sunday, Dec 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali, File)

Sudan’s generals agree to meet in efforts to end their devastating war, a regional bloc says

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Smoke rises over Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, June 8, 2023, as fighting between the Sudanese army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces continues. Clashes resumed between Sudan's military and a powerful paramilitary force after a three-day cease-fire expired Wednesday morning, June 21, 2023 a protest group and residents reported. (AP Photo, File)

Airstrike in Sudanese city kills at least 22, officials say, amid fighting between rival generals

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

People prepare food in a Khrtoum neighborhood Friday, June 16, 2023. Sudan had plunged into chaos since mid-April when monthslong tensions between the military and its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, exploded into open fighting in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere across the northeastern African nation. (AP Photo)

Sudan officials say airstrike kills 17, including 5 children, in capital Khartoum

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Ibn Sina Mansour, a Sudanese-British national, waits for a call from his older brother, al-Samual Mansour, who is trapped in Sudan, at his hotel in Aswan, Egypt, on May 10, 2023. Ibn Sina traveled to Aswan to be close to his brother, who lost his travel documents and is unable to cross into Egypt. (AP Photo/Samy Magdy)

Thousands of Sudanese fleeing fighting with no travel documents trapped on the border with Egypt

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

People cross the border from Sudan to South Sudan at the Joda border crossing in South Sudan, May 16, 2023. The U.N. migration agency says Sudan’s conflict has displaced more than 2 million people as the tally of civilians killed in the fighting climbed to at least 959 people. Sudan has plunged into chaos since mid-April when monthslong tensions between the military and its rival, the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, exploded into open fighting in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere across the northeastern African nation. The fighting has forced more than 1.6 million people to leave their homes for safer areas inside Sudan. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, file)

UN: Sudan’s war displaces over 2 million, as fighting rages in Darfur region

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Smoke rises in Khartoum, Sudan, on April 22, 2023. In the country's capital, Sudan's army and the paramilitary group known as the Rapid Support Forces have battled in the streets with automatic rifles, artillery and airstrikes. An AP journalist, waiting for a chance to leave the country, sheltered with a diverse group of more than a dozen people who hunkered down in a small hotel in central Khartoum. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali) **FILE**

Trapped by Sudan fighting, dozens of infants, toddlers and children died in Khartoum orphanage

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

People line up in front of a bakery during a cease-fire in Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, May 27, 2023. Saudi Arabia and the United States say the warring parties in Sudan are adhering better to a week-long cease-fire after days of fighting. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Sudan’s military says it has suspended its participation in talks with paramilitary rival

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

A man leads donkeys pulling water barrels in Khartoum, Sudan, Sunday, May 28, 2023. The Sudanese army and a rival paramilitary force, battling for control of Sudan since mid-April, had agreed last week to the weeklong truce, brokered by the U.S. and the Saudis. However, the cease-fire, like others before it, did not stop the fighting in the capital of Khartoum and elsewhere in the country. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)

Sudan army, rival force under pressure to extend truce after mediators show impatience with breaches

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

People walk by a market in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday, May 23, 2033. The U.N. migration agency said Wednesday that the fighting between Sudan's military and a powerful paramilitary force had displaced more than a million people. (AP Photo)

What about those who can’t flee fighting in Sudan? Many face danger and despair

By Jack Jeffery - Associated Press

Nigerians who were evacuated from Sudan arrive at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, Nigeria, Friday, May 5, 2023. Many Africans escaping the conflict in Sudan that erupted with little warning last month faced a long wait - three weeks for some - to get out and severe challenges on the way as their governments stuggled to mobilize resources. (AP Photo/Gbemiga Olamikan)

Blinken warns rival Sudanese generals to respect latest truce or face possible sanctions

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Sudanese Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the military council, waves to his supporters upon his arrival to attend a military-backed rally, in Omdurman district, west of Khartoum, Sudan, Saturday, June 29, 2019.(AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

From allies to foes: How uneasy relations between Sudan army, separate force exploded into violence

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press