Sudan's army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, has reshuffled the military's top command, the army said on Monday, in the first major leadership change since the country's conflict erupted last year.

A Sudanese rights group on Sunday accused state-backed security cells in the capital Khartoum of committing widespread abuses, including arbitrary arrests, torture, and forced disappearances, saying it had documented 121 such arrests in recent months.

Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) were accused on Sunday of carrying out summary executions of civilians in the besieged North Darfur city of El Fasher, with videos circulating online that appeared to show the killings.

Sudan's prime minister on Saturday made a direct appeal in Spanish to the people of Colombia, urging them to stop the recruitment of mercenaries to fight alongside paramilitary forces in the country's war-torn Darfur region.

At least 31 civilians were killed and dozens were injured in heavy shelling by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on the capital of North Darfur state, El Fasher, and a nearby displacement camp on Saturday, activists and medics said.

The Sudanese army on Friday launched drone strikes against Rapid Support Forces (RSF) positions across North Darfur. In return, the RSF shelled a displacement camp near El Fasher, killing at least three civilians and injuring seven others, activists said.

Sudan's army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, visited troops on Friday in a strategic area of North Kordofan state that his forces had recaptured from the paramilitary RFS group last month, the country's Sovereignty Council announced.

Rapid Support Forces (RSF) elements have abducted at least nine civilians, including women and children, from their homes during a raid on the southern neighbourhoods of El Fasher this week, sources and residents said.

A cholera outbreak sweeping through war-torn Sudan has infected nearly 100,000 people and killed more than 2,470 amid a deepening humanitarian crisis, the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Thursday.

Speaking from Juba, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel on Wednesday denied reports that her country was in talks with South Sudan to accept Palestinians resettled from Gaza, following a social media backlash against the alleged plan in the African nation.

"The network is sounding the alarm about the continued siege and lack of food and treatment, which has caused malnutrition to spread significantly among children, women, and the elderly," Razan al-Mahdi, a spokeswoman for the Sudan Doctors Network, told Sudan Tribune from Kasugli

An official from the RSF-run administration points at the damaged building of the Ministry of Urban Planning in East Darfur state following what local authorities described as a Sudanese army airstrike in El Daein, August 13, 2025.

A suspected Rapid Support Forces (RSF) drone strike killed at least three people and injured several others in Tumbul, eastern Al Jazirah state, on Wednesday, striking a crowd gathered for a military celebration, according to local sources and officials.

The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday rejected an announcement by Sudan's Rapid Support Forces (RSF) of a parallel governing authority, warning that the move was a "direct threat" to the country's unity and could fragment the nation, worsening its devastating conflict.

The government of South Sudan on Wednesday forcefully denied reports that it was in discussions with Israel to resettle Palestinians from the Gaza Strip within its borders, calling the claims “baseless.”.

The U.S. State Department declined to comment Tuesday on reports of a secret meeting in Switzerland between Sudanese leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and a U.S. advisor, despite other government and media sources confirming that the high-stakes talks had taken place.

During his meetings in Juba on Monday, Malik Agar, Deputy Chairman of Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council, urged South Sudan President Salva Kiir and his Deputy, Benjamin Bol Mel, to tighten border security to stop alleged cross-border supply lines to the paramilitary Rapid

The United Nations warned on Monday that more than 60 people, primarily women and children, have died from malnutrition in a single week in the besieged Sudanese city of El Fasher, as the country grapples with spreading famine, violence, and a major cholera outbreak.