US aims new sanctions at Sudan’s military junta over its use of chemical weapons
The United States has barred aircraft linked to Sudan’s military junta, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), from operating in its airspace and is tightening...
The Story We’re Not Telling About El-Obeid: SAF’s Human Shields and Trapped Civilians
The battle for El-Obeid is being framed almost exclusively as a story of Rapid Support Forces (RSF) encirclement, but an honest reckoning also requires...
The Case for Recognising Bangladesh’s 1971 Genocide at the United Nations
As the 62nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council took place in Geneva, Human Rights Without Frontiers chose to raise an issue...
Saudi’s strategy for Yemen: a stick for the southerners, a carrot for Europe’s defense ministries
Saudi Arabia’s Yemen policy master, Riyadh’s ambassador Mohammed al-Jaber, believes in stick-and-carrot diplomacy—he shows the stick to Yemen’s dissenters and the carrot to Europe’s...
A Civilian Façade: Riyadh’s Push to Rebrand Burhan Collapses on His Record
Saudi Arabia is quietly trying to build a civilian political base around Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, according to Africa Intelligence,...
Sudan: Burhan’s ‘arms-first’ diplomacy is aimed at surviving an unwinnable war
Sudan’s army leader, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has no plans for peace in Sudan, let alone a civilian‑led, internationally supported settlement. Instead, he is...
Reality check: Kamil Idris’ Al-Jazeera article misses the Sudan peace point again
There will not have been many international leaders taken in by Sudanese Prime Minister Kamil Idris’ opinion article published this week on the Al-Jazeera...
Integration of Islamist Forces by Sudan’s Yasser al-Atta Set to Deepen, Not Ease, International Alarm
Lieutenant General Yasser al-Atta, member of the Sovereign Council and Assistant Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), stated on Saturday that arrangements are...
Sudan: Another tradeable chip in the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement
The US-Israeli air war against Iran has thrown into relief a curious symmetry of interests between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the future of...
Sudan: CNN and Lighthouse Reports publish evidence of SAF ethnically motivated atrocities
CNN has reported that the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and allied militias have carried out a campaign of ethnically targeted killings in Sudan’s Gezira...