Amid pride in East African nation over accomplishment, neighbours cast wary eye at potential drought, water treaty violations

THE HAGUE, March 28 — The World Court has said it will hear a case brought by Sudan demanding emergency measures against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and accusing the Gulf state of violating obligations under the Genocide Convention by arming paramilitary forces.

GENEVA, Feb 28 — The UN human rights chief warned of the risk of a further escalation of the war in Sudan on Thursday and said that there was a growing risk of deaths from starvation on a wide scale.

GENEVA, Nov 27 — More than 700 trucks are on their way to famine-stricken areas of Sudan as part of a major scale-up after clearance came through from the Sudan government, a World Food Programme spokesman said yesterday.

KAZAN, Russia, Oct 25 — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told BRICS leaders including Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday that the world needed peace in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine and Sudan.

NAIROBI/CAIRO, Aug 28 — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is investigating two of its top officials in Sudan over allegations including fraud and concealing information from donors about its ability to deliver food aid to civilians amid the nation’s dire hunger crisis, according to 11 people with knowledge of the probe.

NEW YORK, Aug 2 — More than half of Sudan’s population now face acute hunger, a United Nations spokesman said yesterday.

GENEVA, June 13 — The United Nations refugee agency on Thursday said the number of people forcibly displaced stood at a record 117.3 million as of the end of last year, warning that this figure could rise further without major global political changes.

UNITED NATIONS, June 12 — United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres yesterday named and shamed Israel’s armed and security forces, Palestinian militants Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and Sudan’s warring parties for killing and maiming children last year, adding them to an annual global list of offenders for violations against children.

UNITED NATIONS, April 20 — Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in “extreme and immediate danger” as worsening violence advances and threatens to “unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout Darfur,” top UN officials warned the Security Council on Friday.

DUBAI, May 30 — Sudan's warring military factions agreed on Monday to a five-day extension of a ceasefire agreement, after renewed heavy clashes and air strikes in the capital threw fresh doubts on the effectiveness of a truce designed to ease a humanitarian crisis.

WASHINGTON, May 21 — A temporary cease-fire between warring forces in Sudan has been reached, according to the United States and Saudi Arabia — which brokered the deal.

KHARTOUM, May 9 — Armed clashes still raged in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on Monday as negotiations between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have so far yielded no major progress.

SEPANG, May 7 — A Malaysian mother and her two children who were trapped in the Al Gaza region for 22 days, due to the conflict in Sudan, arrived home today.

PUTRAJAYA, May 5 — Three Malaysians who were previously trapped in Sudan following the armed conflict, have safely landed at King Faisal Naval Base in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, early on Friday morning.

KHARTOUM, May 4 — The Sudanese armed forces have agreed to a seven-day humanitarian truce – proposed by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Eastern Africa – from May 4-11, reported Sputnik, quoting the military on Wednesday.

PUTRAJAYA, May 3 — A Malaysian mother, her two children, and her Sudanese husband who were trapped in the Al Gaza region due to the conflict in Sudan are now on their way to Port Sudan.

ANKARA, May 2 — The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will convene in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to discuss the latest situation in conflict-torn Sudan.

PUTRAJAYA, May 1 — The United States has expressed its appreciation to the Malaysian government for helping to bring out two of its citizens, during the process of evacuating Malaysians from Sudan.

JAKARTA, May 1 — A further 363 Indonesian citizens evacuated from Sudan arrived home on Sunday (April 30) on a second flight by the country's flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, the country's foreign ministry said.