With 12 million displaced and little global focus, Sudan faces a worsening catastrophe as Rep. Chris Smith calls for a worldwide response and an immediate end to fighting between armed groups.

Aid delivery remains extremely difficult in violence-ridden areas, where clashes continue between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces.

GENEVA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Food rations ‌will ​be reduced for communities facing ‌famine in Sudan from next month due to severe funding ​shortages, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.

Twelve years ago today, neighbouring South Sudan was plunged into a civil war following the fallout between the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) party chairman, President Salva Kiir, and Dr Riek Machar, the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-in-Opposition (SPLM/A-IO).

Dozens of people have been killed in a drone strike against Sudan’s largest oil processing facility carried out by the Sudanese Armed Forces.

South Sudan has sent its troops to neighbouring Sudan to guard the strategic Heglig oil field near the border, its military head said on Thursday, days after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took control of it.

Sudanese families in Regina say the world is not paying enough attention to what is happening in their home country.

U.N. experts warn that the treason trial of South Sudan’s suspended vice president is further eroding a 2018 peace agreement he signed with President Salva Kiir.

Sudan’s Sovereign Council President Abdel Fattah al-Burhan ordered officials on Sunday to engage with South Sudan on oil and energy issues after receiving a letter from President Salva Kiir. The diplomatic exchange follows the deployment of the South Sudan People’s Defence Forces (SSPDF) to the Heglig oil field in West Kordofan on December 10.