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.
An official from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has told CNN the war in Ethiopia is far from over and that Eritrean troops are part of the conflict.
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.
Witnesses say bodies found on the banks of a river in Sudan tell a dark story of a new phase of ethnic cleansing across the border in Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray region.
Multiple interviews with high-level Sudanese and US officials and troves of documents reviewed by CNN paint a picture of an elaborate Russian scheme to plunder Sudan’s riches in a bid to fortify Russia against increasingly robust Western sanctions and to buttress Moscow’s war effort in Ukraine.
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.
