Web resources: Sudan Conflict

This African Library list offers a selection of online resources on the ongoing violence in Sudan. It contains online articles, blogs, infographics, podcasts and videos, most of which are freely accessible.

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Book : Undoing a revolution : Sudan and the politics of debt / Harry E. Cross. London: C Hurst and Co Publishing, 2025. - African arguments.

Infographics : Sudan: OCHA Situation Report. Reliefweb, 2023-2025.

Infographics : Sudan Shahid / C4ADS, 2023-2025.

Infographics : Sudan situation reports / Displacement Tracking Matrix - DTM Sudan, 2023-2025.

Infographics : Sudan situation report / UNHCR Operational Data Portal, 2023-2025.

Web overview : What Is Happening in Sudan - Sudan Crisis Response / Doctors Without Borders, 2023-2025.

Web overview : Experts Insights: Sudan / Anette Hoffmann and Guido Lanfranchi. The Hague: Clingendael, 2023-2025.

Web overview : Topic 2023 Sudan War  / Mada Masr, 2023-2025.

Website: Dabanga: independent news from the heart of Sudan. News reporting.

Website : Ayin Network: what’s happening in Sudan, in sight and sound. News reporting.

Website : Fikra for Studies and Development. Analysis and opinion pieces.

Journal article : The most nihilistic conflict on earth / Anne Applebaum. The Atlantic, September 2025.

Journal article : Analysing the impact of the Sudan armed conflict (2023) on export and import dynamics/ Niematallah E. A. Elamin. In: South African Journal of International Affairs, 3 September 2025.

Web article : Unicef: duizenden ondervoede kinderen dreigen te sterven in belegerde stad in Sudan/. NOS, 27 August 2025.

Web article :  South Sudanese exiles face uncertain future after release from prison in Sudan/ Joseph Falzetta and Adlai Coleman. AP News, 19 August 2025.

Journal special: The war about everything in Sudan. The Continent, 16 August 2025, pages 13-22.

Web article : Waarom er voorlopig geen vrede in Soedan komt/ Naïm Derbali and Lara Lamie. NRC, 4 August 2025.

Web report : Besieged, attacked, starved; mass atrocities in El Fasher and Zamzam, Sudan / Médecins sans frontières, July 2025.

Web reports : The Sudan Conflict Monitor #1- #21. / Ayin Network; Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker; Sudan Human Rights Hub, 2023- (#21 publ. June 2025, to select older/newer issues change the number in the link)

Web article : Sudan war: Children killed in 'appalling' hospital attack in West Kordofan, says WHO/ Natasha Booty. BBC, 24 June 2025.

Web article : The war in Sudan is spilling over its borders/ The Economist, 19 June 2025 (Restricted access)

Web article : Kenyan Weapons linked to Sudan’s civil war / Carlos Gonzales, Mike Yambo, Jackline Macharia. Bellingcat, 15 June 2025.

Infographics : Sudan situation map / Thomas van Linge on X, updated 1 June 2025.

Blog : Sudan War Series Archives / African Arguments, May-June 2025.

Video : Pulitzerwinnaar brengt oorlog Sudan in beeld: 'hongersnood en etnische zuivering'/ NOS Nieuwsuur, 31 May 2025 (In Dutch).

Web article : The hidden toll of reporting on the Sudanese civil war/ Nalova Akua. Columbia Journalism Review, 27 May 2025.

Web article : Sudan army says Khartoum state 'completely free' of paramilitaries/ RFI, 21 May 2025.

Video : Why isn't the world paying attention to Sudan / The Stream, Al Jazeera, 20 May 2025.  

Web article : Port Sudan strikes: drone attacks raise stakes in new phase of bloody civil war / Barbara Plett Usher. BBC, 15 May 2025.

Web article : Drones, gold, and threats: Sudan’s war raises regional tensions/ Mat Nashed. Al Jazeera, 13 May 2025.

Web article : Sudan: Advanced Chinese weaponry provided by UAE identified in breach of arms embargo - new investigation / Amnesty International, 8 May 2025.

Blog : Fueled by impunity: the urgency of accountability to end the war in Sudan / Mohaned Elnour. The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy, 8 May 2025.

Web overview : Sudan at war: internal divisions, regional rivalries, and international inertia / Lucia Ragazzi, Sara de Simone. ISPI, 30 April 2025.

Blog : Sudan and the politics of debt / Harry Cross. African Arguments, 30 April 2025.

Podcast : Spotlight on Africa: Two years of devastation: Sudan’s war claims thousands and displaces millions/ RFI, 29 April 2025.

Web article : Zamzam after the catastrophe: news from Team Zamzam / Eric Reeves. Sudan Research, Analysis, and Advocacy, 27 April 2025.

Podcast : Emiraten praten over vrede in Soedan terwijl ze de oorlog voeden / NPO Radio 1, 15 April 2025.

Video : Sudan civil war: Inside Khartoum following two years of war / BBC, 1 April 2025.

Webpage : Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in Sudan (Sudan v. United Arab Emirates)/ International Court of Justice, March 2025.

Podcast : A decisive turn in Sudan’s war? | Crisis Group / Hold Your Fire!, 28 February 2025.

Blog : The Sudan impasse 2023-2025: prospects for ‘normal politics’? / Jon Abbink. ASCL Africanist Blog, 27 January 2025.

Video : The Sungu mines - gold that fuels RSF's war - Ayin network - شبكة عاين/ Ayin Network. 18 January 2025.

Research paper : The implications of the current war for the Chad-Sudan relationship / Roland Marchal. Sudan Transparency and Policy Tracker, 2024.

Research paper : Effective social protection in conflict : findings from Sudan / Izzy Birch, Becky Carter and Hassan-Alattar Satti. Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, 2024.

Web reports : Situational awareness reports / Sudan Conflict Observatory, 2023-2024.

Video : How 'trophy' videos link commanders to war crimes in Sudan / Visual Investigations, The New York Times, 31 December 2024.

Infographics : Conflict Watchlist 2025: Sudan/ ACLED, 12 December 2024.

Video : Spotlight on Sudan / SPUI25 Live. Panel organised by UvA, NIOD and ACMES on 28 November 2024 in SPUI25. Speakers: Anette Hoffman, Christian Henderson, Douglas Johnson, Hamid Khalafallah, Sharath Srinivasan, Edward Thomas, moderated by Solange Fontana and Ali Hamdan. https://spui25.nl/programma/spotlight-on-sudan

Podcast : Inside Sudan’s catastrophic civil war / The Horn, 7 November 2024.

Blog : Maybe the Nobel prize for peace should have gone to the soup kitchens in Sudan / Koert Lindijer, The Africanists, 23 October 2024.

Video : Keep Eyes on Sudan: Mass Displacement, Food Insecurity, and Sudanese Women / Studies Center for Contemporary Arab Studies YouTube Channel, 12 September 2024.

Infographics : Fact Sheet : conflict surges in Sudan / Ladd Serwat and Elham Kazemi, visuals by Ana Marco. ACLED, 2023.

Infographics : Sudan conflict map / Benjamin Strick, 2023.

Journal article : Resistance is life: how Sudan’s resistance committees perform democratic power / Linda S. Bihai. In: The Journal of North African Studies (2023) (Restricted access)

Journal special issue : Remembering Darfur – marking 20 years of conflict and its fallout / Susanne Jaspars (SOAS), Musa A. Abdul-Jalil (University of Khartoum), and Sara Pantuliano (ODI) (eds.). In: Disasters (virtual issue, partly free access 2023)

Research paper : The remains of the JPA: the unlearnt lessons of the Juba Peace Agreement / Joshua Craze and Kholood Khair. Nairobi [etc.] : Rift Valley Institute, 2023.

Research paper : Paying for peace: the political economy of the Juba Peace Agreement / Edward Thomas. Nairobi [etc.] : Rift Valley Institute, 2023.

Research paper : Key actors in the Juba Peace Agreement: roles, impacts, and lessons / Amar Jamal. Nairobi [etc.] : Rift Valley Institute, 2023.

Podcast : Sudan: In revolution and war / The Fire These Times, 24 October 2023.

Web article : Sudan’s future is being shaped by guns and money - like its past / Alex De Waal. The Conversation, 24 August 2023.

Blog : Sudanese feminist sisterhood: at the frontline of radical resistance and solidarity / Reem Abbas. Alliance Magazine Blog, 14 August 2023.

Timeline : Sudan timeline April-June 2023: tensions between Sudanese army and the paramilitary RSF erupt into full-scale armed conflict / Dabanga Sudan, 14 July 2023.

Web article : Sudan : Darfur town destroyed: ICC should investigate killings, looting by Rapid Support Forces, Arab militias / Human Rights Watch. 11 July 2023.

Web article : Between two wars: twenty years of conflict in Sudan, from Darfur to Khartoum and back / By Jérôme Tubiana. AlJazeera, 30 June 2023.

Research paper : Sudan Conflict: assessing the risk of regionalization / Rift Valley Institute, June 2023.

Research paper : ‘Hemedti challenges SAF’s control over Sudan’ / Rift Valley Institute, May 2023.

Blog : Lessons from Khartoum: Sudan’s refugee crisis and the fallacy of containment policies / by Lutz Oette and Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker. SOAS Refugee Law Initiative Blog, 24 May 2023.

Blog : Sudan’s catastrophe: a long history of failed responses to structural and direct violence / by Susanne Jaspars and Lutz Oette. African Arguments, 17 May 2023.

Blog : Sudan: The flight for safety of Abdelmonim / Koert Lindijer. The Africanists, 8 May 2023.

Podcast : Machtsstrijd jaagt Soedanezen naar Egypte & Duitsland wil af van veto in Europa. Bureau Buitenland, 8 May 2023 (in Dutch)

Video : Between Us: the Sudan conflict / Hiba Morgan. AlJazeera, 4 May 2023.

Blog : How years of impunity gave Sudan’s generals licence to destroy my country / Hala al-Karib (Regional Director, Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA)). The New Humanitarian, 3 May 2023.

Web article : Sudan conflict: why is there fighting and what is at stake in the region? / Adam Fulton and Oliver Holmes. The Guardian, 27 April 2023.

Web article : Sudan: Why has fighting broken out there? / by Beverly Ocheng. BBC, 24 April 2023.

Podcast : Bonus Episode: War in Sudan / The Horn, 22 April 2023.

Web report : Breaking the bank : how military control of the economy obstructs democracy in Sudan / Catherine Cartier, Eva Kahan and Isaac Zukin. C4ADS, 2022.

Web report :  Sudan’s 2019 Constitutional Declaration: its impact on the transition / Davies, B. Stockholm : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA), 2022.

Book : Routledge handbook of the Horn of Africa / edited by Jean-Nicolas Bach. Abingdon: Routledge, 2022.

Journal article : Sudan’s revolution of 2019: at the crossroads of Africa and the Arab World / Kevin Anderson. Santa Barbara: University of California, 2022. (Free access)

Webinar: Sudan's revolution: what comes next? / Arab Reform Initiative, YouTube Channel, 10 January 2022.

Web report : The fall of al-Bashir: mapping contestation forces in Sudan / El-Gizouli, M. Arab Reform Inititiative, 2019.

Web report : General framework for the programme of the transitional government / Ministry of Cabinet Affairs, Republic of Sudan. Khartoum : Ministry of Cabinet Affairs, 2019.

Web article : Exposing the RSF's secret financial network / Global Witness. Global Witness, 9 December 2019.

See also all titles on Sudan in the African Library catalogue, and the African Library webdossier on the aftermath of the Arab Spring.