Guterres urges end to arms flow as Sudan war enters fourth year
The flow of weapons to Sudan must stop, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pleaded on the war’s third anniversary.
![Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, secure the area where Dagalo attends a military-backed tribe's rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan, on June 22, 2019. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP24178613392307_cropped-1776282732.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
The flow of weapons to Sudan must stop, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pleaded on the war’s third anniversary.
![Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit, led by Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the military council, secure the area where Dagalo attends a military-backed tribe's rally, in the East Nile province, Sudan, on June 22, 2019. [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AP24178613392307_cropped-1776282732.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)






![People lift national flags during a rally called for by Sudan's Popular Front for Liberation and Justice in Port Sudan on April 24, 2025, to denounce the siege imposed by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on El-Fasher city and express support for its residents. Since April 2023, the war between the army and the RSF has killed tens of thousands, uprooted 13 million and created what the UN describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. [Photo by AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/AFP__20250424__43DZ9NQ__v1__HighRes__SudanConflictRally-1-1776183346.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Sudanese children are being born into conditions ‘no child should ever face’, Save the Children says.
Many people resorting to eating leaves and animal feed to survive in North Darfur and South Kordofan states.
Humanity & Inclusion says people with disabilities face extreme challenges amid war and humanitarian crisis.
Two strikes on Al Jabalain Hospital in White Nile State hit an operating theatre and a maternity ward, MSF says.
In a new report, Doctors Without Borders says sexual violence is the ‘defining feature’ of the conflict in Sudan.
Sudan Doctors Network said RSF and allies shelled residential areas in the city of Dilling for several hours.
The tragic toll of Sudan’s destroyed healthcare
The attack on teaching hospital in al-Daein, the capital of East Darfur state, has rendered the facility nonfunctional.










Local resident says casualties include mourners at funeral and children playing nearby.