Nima Elbagir

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

A 19-year-old Sudanese woman has been sentenced to death for fatally stabbing the man she was forced to marry, who she says raped her as his relatives held her down.

Smugglers in Libya are auctioning migrants off as slaves. At a property outside Tripoli, CNN witnessed a dozen men go under the hammer in the space of minutes.

Sinjar is yielding up its secrets – the whispers of those who prayed as they were killed. Grief for those captured and never seen again.

Ambulance offers hope in war-torn Somalia