Nima Elbagir

Six men who allegedly made fortunes from buying and selling migrants have been hit by UN sanctions in an unprecedented response to the slave trade exposed by CNN, the Dutch foreign ministry said Thursday.

The United States imposed sanctions against six men for their involvement in human trafficking and smuggling of migrants in Libya in a case first exposed by a CNN undercover investigation.

Beaten in the streets, taken to secret “ghost houses” and submitted to freezing torture techniques. Despite former detainees’ accounts of Sudan’s brutal crackdown, the US is still offering closer ties.

As Sudan grapples with the end of Omar al-Bashir’s 30-year dictatorship, music has become a defining part of the protest movement, with singing and dancing continuing around the clock.

They were abused at the same school a decade apart and failed by the Catholic order meant to safeguard them.

It’s very hard to know what is happening in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, because the government has endorsed a communications blackout. But a CNN team at the Sudan-Ethiopia border spent days gathering testimony from refugees who say they were targeted because of their Tigray ethnicity.

Sudan military leader accuses rival of ‘attempted coup’ as vicious fighting grips capital

The Russian mercenary group Wagner has been supplying Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) with missiles to aid their fight against the country’s army, Sudanese and regional diplomatic sources have told CNN.

I have reported on conflicts around the world for over two decades, but nothing prepares you to cover a war at home. To see familiar places occupied and demolished. To fully plunge the depth of your helplessness.

A Hamas-linked financier, once sentenced for 10 years on corruption charges in Sudan, maintains a network of business interests in Europe despite being under US sanctions, leaked documents show.