Former UN official Kamil Idris has been named Sudan's new prime minister, as the country's warring factions continue to battle for control amid a deepening humanitarian crisis.

The bespectacled, grey-bearded man ran out of the primary school in Khartoum's Amarat district, shaking with shock.

Following a year of "record violence" in Sudan in 2024, the start of the new year sees new bouts of violence inflicted on civilians, especially by the SAF in Wad Madani, a strategic point on the map ...

It was not until the lifting of US economic sanctions in 2017, and in particular the removal of Sudan from the list of countries deemed to be sponsoring terrorism in 2020 by former president Donald ...