![]() Last week, army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy on the country’s Sovereign Council Malik Agar expressed openness to any mediation attempts by Turkey or Russia, though no official efforts have been announced. Talks hosted in Jeddah and sponsored by the United States and Saudi Arabia were suspended last month, while a mediation attempt by east African countries was criticised by the army as it accused Kenya of bias. ![]() The Combating Violence Against Women Unit, a government agency, said on Saturday it had recorded 88 cases of sexual assault, which it said was a fraction of the likely real total, in Khartoum, El Geneina, and Nyala, capital of South Darfur, with victims in most cases accusing the RSF. The war has also hit cities in the western Kordofan and Darfur regions, in particular the western city of El Geneina, where the RSF and Arab militias have been accused of ethnic cleansing. Background Yemen’s civil war began in 2014 when Houthi insurgentsShiite rebels with links to Iran and a history of rising up against the Sunni governmenttook controlof Yemen’s capital and largest. The Sudanese Doctors Union accused the RSF on Saturday of raiding the Shuhada hospital, one of the few still operating in the country, and killing a staff member.
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