Fighting reaches Sudan’s Wad Madani, once considered a safe haven for displaced. As many as 15,000 civilians have fled one of Sudan's largest cities. By Emma Ogao. December 20, 2023, 8:43 AM.

Aid agencies have largely halted operations in Wad Madani and the wider El Gezira State, and the U.N. has moved its staff to calmer areas in the country’s east or across the border into South Sudan.

The violence around Wad Madani has sparked retaliatory attacks against Sudanese refugees in South Sudan. A resident in the capital, Juba, reported riots and machete-wielding mobs hunting Sudanese ...

WAD MADANI, Sudan, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Civilians and soldiers celebrated in Wad Madani, the capital of Sudan's El Gezira state, after it was recaptured by the Sudanese army from the paramilitary ...

Riding atop a truck along a road in Wad Madani, Sudan, on Friday, when witnesses and aid workers said heavy gunfire could be heard in several parts of the city’s suburbs.

Sudan’s army has recaptured Wad Madani, a strategically important city some 200km (124 miles) southeast of the capital Khartoum, in a major blow to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Wad Madani is the heart of Sudan’s grain-producing region. The harvest has already been disrupted because banks have closed and farmers were unable to purchase fertilizers and other equipment.

Sudan plunged into a civil war in April 2023 after a vicious struggle for power broke out between its army and a powerful ...

The takeover of Wad Madani, ... As many as 300,000 people have fled fighting on a new front in Sudan's war, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday, ...

WAD MADANI, Sudan (Reuters) - Civilians and soldiers celebrated in Wad Madani, the capital of Sudan's El Gezira state, after it was recaptured by the Sudanese army from the paramilitary Rapid ...

Sudan’s army has recaptured Wad Madani, a strategically important city some 200km (124 miles) southeast of the capital Khartoum, in a major blow to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).