Fikra for Studies and Development is appalled and outraged by the RSF’s cowardly and deliberate missile attack on the Omdurman Maternity Hospital today, 9 August 2024. This heinous act, which comes just one day after the hospital’s reopening follo... Read more
Today, August 8th, 2024, and after enduring 100 days in the Amhara region’s Awlala forest without any institutional support or protection, Sudanese refugees were forced to start their journey back returning to Sudan on foot.
On July 22nd, 20... Read more
A sense of cautious optimism, coupled with underlying concerns and apprehensions of failure, emerged among the Sudanese people following the US Secretary of State’s call for the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to eng... Read more
The situation in Sudan, which was once called the world’s food basket, is similar to that of Tantalus in Greek mythology, who was cursed to eternal misery by being forced to stand in a basin of water beneath a low-branched fruit tree, the fru... Read more
Since the outbreak of the war on April 15th in 2023, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia has tried to frame and present itself as the liberators of Sudan and its people from the shackles of the Islamists and the Army. In essence they portrayed... Read more
Abandoned in the Bush: Sudanese Refugees Face Violence, Neglect, and UNHCR Dereliction of Duty
Since May 1st, 6080 Sudanese refugees -half of them women and children- have been forced to take refuge in a bush area in Awlala area of... Read more