Timeline:Sudan

Dated events for Sudan, generated from the archive. Each line is one headline as it was recorded.

2026-08-25

Port Sudan detainees launch hunger strike over ‘endless’ trial delays - dabanga
South Sudan: Two UN peacekeepers killed, seven injured - africanews
Sudan announces it intercepted a drone coming from Ethiopia. - rfi_afrique
Sudan announces it intercepted a drone from Ethiopia - rfi_afrique
US moots expanding Darfur arms embargo to cover drones and all of Sudan - dabanga

2026-08-24

Ambush in South Sudan kills peacekeeping troops - aljazeera
Security Council LIVE: War, hunger, flooding escalates in Sudan - unnews
Two UN peacekeepers killed in South Sudan ambush - unnews

2026-08-23

Video: Thousands of families flee fighting in Sudan’s North Kordofan State - aljazeera

2026-08-21

‘Takaya’ community kitchen closures threaten 50,000 families in Sudan capital - dabanga

2026-06-23

Dispatch from Ukraine - Brookings

2026-06-08

Show Us the Money - Foreign Policy

2026-06-06

Gaza is a step away from catastrophe - ynet.co.il

2026-05-28

How pro-Israel trolls exploit the people of Sudan and the DRC - Middle East Eye

2026-05-27

Is Accountability in Syria Possible? - Pulitzer Center

2026-05-15

Nicholas Kristof and Death By a Thousand Cuts - The Free Press

2026-05-01

Recalling Damascus on the Hudson - The Broadsheet

2026-04-27

The Art of the Nuclear Deal - The New York Times

2026-04-26

Damascus, Scatter Brain, and New Faces - The Trek

2026-04-25

Tracking Chinese and Russian Statements on the Iran War - The Washington Institute

2026-04-17

Damascus, MD - gnews

2026-04-15

Discover - Twin Cities PBS

2026-04-06

New Airstrikes Batter Tehran - The New York Times

2026-04-01

Smirking Past the Gallows - The Atlantic

2026-03-27

The Blogs: Dazed and Confused - The Times of Israel

2026-03-25

Acknowledgments - Pew Research Center
The Choking of Hormuz - The New York Times

2026-03-05

Whither Palestine and the Palestinians? - Arab Center Washington DC

2026-02-28

Iran After the Ayatollah - Christianity Today

2026-02-27

Shipping Tribune - shippingtribune.com

2026-02-10

Cutting Through the Fog of War (and Peace) in Syria - The Washington Institute

2026-02-09

The Gap between Perception and Reality - The Times of Israel

2026-01-19

How Turkey and Damascus Engineered a Kurdish Defeat - Modern Diplomacy

2026-01-15

Statement from Spain and France on Turkey. - haber7.com

2025-12-23

A Real Negotiation Process - RAND

2025-12-12

Msayleh - Human Rights Watch

2025-12-08

Baraa in Syria - Al Jazeera

2025-12-07

The Road to Damascus - Al Jazeera

2025-11-28

Sudan truces, West Bank evictions, and Trump immigration orders: The Cheat Sheet - The New Humanitarian

2025-11-19

Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND) - Iran Watch

2025-11-18

Hamas - Middle East Institute

2025-11-12

Iran’s Hidden Hand in Sudan: Proxy Wars Fuel Human Tragedy - maternaldispatches.com - gnews

2025-10-28

How Israel is winning the wars and losing the peace - NPR

2025-10-26

Javad Naeimi: Mossad Spy or a Victim? - WANA News Agency

2025-10-14

Opinion | Mr. Trump, on the Middle East, Please Move Fast and Break Things - The New York Times

2025-10-13

Poor Syria - Arab American Institute

2025-10-09

Cruise Missiles Are the Present and Future of Warfare - RAND

2025-10-08

Apocalypse in Gulf is now or never - Deccan Herald

2025-10-01

Focus on the Druze - Jewish Policy Center
Gas and Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean - Arab Center Washington DC

2025-09-30

Houthi Expansion Into Sudan Threatens a Wider Conflict - Middle East Forum

2025-09-29

Close to The Edge - Nowlebanon

2025-09-26

Israel - General Debate

2025-09-24

Returning to Yarmouk - Jewish Currents

2025-09-17

Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation - Transnational Institute
History of the Kaaba - TRT World

2025-09-16

UAE, Sudan trade accusations over illegal arms transfers - TRT World

2025-09-12

Survival Over Defection - persuasion.community - gnews

2025-09-05

Discontent Amid Despair - Riddle Russia

2025-09-04

Disarmament or Diversion? Berri’s Maneuver and Hezbollah’s Outsourcing - Nowlebanon

2025-09-03

Busiest Ocean Trade Route - Marine Insight

2025-08-29

US Military Redeployment in Iraq: Strategic Withdrawal or Tactical Shift? - Geopolitical Monitor

2025-08-26

UAE Ban on Cargoes From Sudan in Focus as Crude Tanker Idles - gCaptain - gnews
Ukraine, Land Swaps, and Patriotic Assassination - Cato Institute

2025-08-25

Talking and Fighting Intersect in Gaza - The Soufan Center

According to UNHCR statistics, more than 1.1 million refugees and asylum seekers lived in Sudan in August 2019. - Wikipedia
Affad 23 is an archaeological site located in the Affad region of southern Dongola Reach in northern Sudan, which hosts "the well-preserved remains of prehistoric camps (relics of the oldest open-air hut in the world) and diverse hunting and gathering loci some 50,000 years old". - Wikipedia
Anthropological and archaeological research indicates that during the predynastic period Nubia and Nagadan Upper Egypt were ethnically and culturally nearly identical, and thus, simultaneously evolved systems of pharaonic kingship by 3300 BC. - Wikipedia
Apart from these, the UNHCR report 1,864,195 Internally displaced persons (IDP's). - Wikipedia
Area: 1,861,484 sq km - CIA World Factbook
Aside from being a refugee-generating country, Sudan also hosts a large population of refugees from other countries. - Wikipedia
At the same time European militaries contributed to the development of Sudanese music by introducing new instruments and styles; military bands, especially the Scottish bagpipes, were renowned, and set traditional music to military march music. - Wikipedia
Background: After the fall of Kush, the Nubians formed three Christian kingdoms of Nobatia, Makuria, and Alodia, with the latter two enduring until around 1500. - CIA World Factbook
Background: By the 11th century B.C., the Kingdom of Kush gained independence from Egypt; it lasted in various forms until the middle of the 4th century A.D. - CIA World Factbook
Background: Long referred to as Nubia, modern-day Sudan was the site of the Kingdom of Kerma (ca. 2500-1500 B.C.) until it was absorbed into the New Kingdom of Egypt. - CIA World Factbook
Beginning with the imposition of strict Salafi interpretation of sharia law in 1983, many of the country's most prominent poets and artists, like Mahjoub Sharif, were imprisoned while others, like Mohammed el Amin (returned to Sudan in the mid-1990s) and Mohammed Wardi (returned to Sudan 2003), fled to Cairo. - Wikipedia
Branches: Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF): Ground Force (Sudanese Army), Sudanese Navy, Sudanese Air Force; Rapid Support Forces (RSF); Border Guards; ; Ministry of Interior: Sudan Police Forces (SPF), Central Reserve Police (CRP) (2025) - CIA World Factbook
By the eighth millennium BC, people of a Neolithic culture had settled into a sedentary way of life there in fortified mudbrick villages, where they supplemented hunting and fishing on the Nile with grain gathering and cattle herding. - Wikipedia
Capital: Khartoum - CIA World Factbook
Chief of state: Sovereign Council Chair and Commander-in-Chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces General Abd-al-Fattah al-BURHAN Abd-al-Rahman (since 11 November 2021) - CIA World Factbook
Climate: hot and dry; arid desert; rainy season varies by region (April to November) - CIA World Factbook
During the fifth millennium BC, migrations from the drying Sahara brought neolithic people into the Nile Valley along with agriculture. - Wikipedia
Equipment: the SAF's inventory includes a mix of mostly Chinese, Russian/Soviet, and some domestically produced weapons systems; Sudan has a state-run defense industry, which mostly manufactures copies of foreign-supplied armaments, such as armored vehicles, under license (2025) - CIA World Factbook
Ethnic groups: Sudanese Arab (approximately 70%), Fur, Beja, Nuba, Ingessana, Uduk, Fallata, Masalit, Dajo, Gimir, Tunjur, Berti; there are over 500 ethnic groups - CIA World Factbook
Government type: presidential republic - CIA World Factbook
In Sudan's 2008 census, the population of northern, western and eastern Sudan was recorded to be over 30 million. - Wikipedia
It flourished from around 2500 BC to 1500 BC in ancient Nubia. - Wikipedia
Languages: Arabic (official), English (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, Fur - CIA World Factbook
Legal system: mixed system of Islamic law and English common law - CIA World Factbook
Life expectancy: 67.8 years (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
Location: north-eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Egypt and Eritrea - CIA World Factbook
Major urban areas: 6.344 million KHARTOUM (capital), 1.057 million Nyala (2023) - CIA World Factbook
Median age: 19.5 years (2025 est.) - CIA World Factbook
Natural resources: petroleum; small reserves of iron ore, copper, chromium ore, zinc, tungsten, mica, silver, gold; hydropower - CIA World Factbook
Neolithic peoples created cemeteries such as R12. - Wikipedia
Northern Sudan listens to different music than the rest of Sudan. - Wikipedia
Personnel: prior to the outbreak of fighting between the SAF and the RSF in 2023, size estimates for Sudan's armed forces varied widely: up to 200,000 SAF; up to 100,000 RSF; up to 80,000 Central Reserve Police (2023) - CIA World Factbook
Population: 50,467,278 (2024 est.) - CIA World Factbook
Recent evidence suggests that while most citizens of the country identify strongly with both Sudan and their religion, Arab and African supranational identities are much more polarising and contested. - Wikipedia
Religions: Sunni Muslim, small Christian minority - CIA World Factbook
Sudan has a rich and unique musical culture that has been through chronic instability and repression during the modern history of Sudan. - Wikipedia
Sudanese culture melds the behaviours, practices, and beliefs of about 578 ethnic groups, communicating in numerous different dialects and languages, in a region microcosmic of Africa, with geographic extremes varying from sandy desert to tropical forest. - Wikipedia
Terrain: generally flat, featureless plain; desert dominates the north - CIA World Factbook
The Kerma culture was an early civilization centered in Kerma, Sudan. - Wikipedia
The majority of this population came from South Sudan (858,607 people), Eritrea (123,413), Syria (93,502), Ethiopia (14,201), the Central African Republic (11,713) and Chad (3,100). - Wikipedia
The march March Shulkawi No 1, is an example, set to the sounds of the Shilluk. - Wikipedia
The population of Greater Khartoum (including Khartoum, Omdurman, and Khartoum North) is growing rapidly and was recorded to be 5.2 million. - Wikipedia
The population of Sudan was estimated to be around 50 million in 2024. - Wikipedia
The population that resulted from this cultural and genetic mixing developed a social hierarchy over the next centuries which became the Kingdom of Kerma at 2500 BC. - Wikipedia
This is a significant increase over the past four decades, as the 1983 census put the total population of Sudan, including present-day South Sudan, at 21.6 million. - Wikipedia
Traditional music suffered too, with traditional Zār ceremonies being interrupted and drums confiscated [1]. - Wikipedia
Urbanization: 36.3% of total population (2023) - CIA World Factbook