Young children are being sexually assaulted by armed men fighting in the civil war in Sudan, with the UN children's agency reporting sexual violence being used as a weapon of war. Unicef said 221 children,

"Sudan is a powder keg, on the verge of a further explosion into chaos, and at increasing risk of atrocity crimes and mass deaths from famine," Volker Turk told the Human Rights Council in Geneva. "The danger of escalation has never been higher."

The United Nations’ food agency says it has paused aid distribution in Sudan’s famine-hit Zamzam displacement camp of a half-million people as fighting intensifies between the country’s warring sides.

Sudan’s envoy, Al-Harith Idriss al-Harith Mohamed, criticized Kenya for allowing the signing of the RSF’s charter in its country, saying the agreement seeks to dismantle his country.

South Sudan stands at a precarious juncture as it enters another extended transitional period. The ongoing clashes between government forces, armed opposition groups, and allied militias in Western Equatoria and Nasir,