Unlike 2003, when the army-backed Arab tribes crushed a mostly non-Arab rebellion, Hassan said, the army is now looking to co-opt non-Arabs in Darfur to fight the RSF.

Back then, refugees from Black tribes told me the same story over and over again: Militiamen largely drawn from local Arab tribes had surrounded their villages, raped women and girls, gunned down ...

Darfur, a region in western Sudan, has a tragic history marked by ethnic violence and humanitarian crises. In the early 2000s, the region experienced a brutal conflict that resulted in the deaths ...

Virtually all of Darfur's 6 million residents are Muslims. Some 90 tribes are represented in the region, which is the size of Texas. Despite a tradition of ethnic mixing and intermarriage, in ...

In 2003 a militia drawn from ethnic Arab tribes in Darfur known as the Janjaweed partnered with the government of Sudan in a genocidal campaign against non-Arab tribes in the region. An estimated ...

Sudanese civilians in North Darfur are starving as they fear an RSF invasion. Many are calling on the army for help.

The violence in Darfur attracted global attention in the 2000s, ... Most of the factions fighting in the conflict were based in Darfur and many Sudan-based “Arab” tribes got involved.

Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, is renowned as the homeland of Hemeti’s allied Arab tribes, particularly the Rizeigat. Its conquest by the Sudanese army, therefore, has been seen as a ...

The violence in Darfur has also taken on disturbingly familiar tones with a largely Arab-identifying RSF and allied militias targeting tribes like the Massalit, which are seen as “Black Africans.” ...

Hundreds of families gathered in the West Darfur capital of El Geneina on June 15, plotting their escape from what had become a hellscape of blown-out buildings scrawled with racist graffiti and ...

Darfur, a region in western Sudan, has a tragic history marked by ethnic violence and humanitarian crises. In the early 2000s, the region experienced a brutal conflict that resulted in the deaths ...