Inside the conflict
Nuba Reports
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27.05.2016Primary School Bombed in Latest String of Civilian Attacks
The Sudan government continues to target children in the ongoing conflict in the Nuba Mountains. On Wednesday afternoon, a government warplane bombed a leading primary school in Kauda, Sudan, wounding…
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26.05.2016Is the UN failing Sudanese refugees in Unity State?
Over the past five years, 70,000 Sudanese refugees from the Nuba Mountains have fled the civil war between Sudan and the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan State and eeked out…
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20.05.2016Nuba conflict intensifies as rains arrive
Intense fighting persists in key locations in the Nuba Mountains with ongoing near-daily aerial bombardments severely affecting civilian populations during a critical time in the region’s planting season. Nuba Reports…
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16.05.2016Six children killed, Sudanese call for justice in Heiban
“My children were turned into shreds and their scattered remains [were found] in the woods and around the house,” said a stunned Abdelrahman Ibrahim to Nuba Reports. On May 1,…
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06.05.2016Little to Celebrate in Sudan on World Press Freedom Day
The killing of two university students in Omdurman has triggered some of the largest student-driven protests in Sudan in recent memory. Protestors from at least nine campuses have demonstrated against…
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05.05.2016The Journey of Two Journalists in to Darfur’s Forgotten War
The images that photojournalists Adriane Ohanesian and Klaas van Dijken brought back with them from war-ravaged Darfur, in western Sudan, are moving, eye-opening – and exceptionally rare. Darfur, once a…
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28.04.2016STATE VS. STUDENTS: KILLING OF NUBA STUDENT SPARKS MASS PROTEST
“The death of a student is the death of a nation,” an ever-growing crowd of protesters chanted as they marched towards Hamed Al-Neel Cemetary in Omdurman, Sudan’s economic capital northwest…
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27.04.2016JORDAN’S SUDANESE REFUGEES: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
The case of the 800 Sudanese asylum seekers who were deported by Jordan after protesting in front of the UNHCR office has disappeared from media coverage. But nearly five months…
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25.04.2016FLAWED BUT CRUCIAL: SUDAN PUSHES FOR UN’S PEACE FORCE TO LEAVE DARFUR
On 18 April the tripartite committee formed by the United Nations, the African Union and the Sudanese government convened once again to discuss the exit strategy for the international peacekeeping…
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19.04.2016DEMOCRACY IN DARFUR: A REFERENDUM DEFIED
“It will forever be engrained into the minds of Sudanese people and people in Al-Fashir that students from Al-Fashir university protested to resist the referendum and this is what we hoped…
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31.03.2016SUDAN, REBEL FORCES CLASH IN FIGHTING SEASON’S BIGGEST BATTLES YET
Sudan government forces attacked at least six rebel-held locations across the Nuba Mountains this week, sparking the largest battles the region has seen in more than a year. Sudan Armed…
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25.03.2016‘Good Girls Don’t Protest:’ Report Exposes Attacks on Sudan’s Female Activists
Human Rights Watch investigation finds rape, violence and arbitrary detention have become common weapons against women. On her way to a meeting with a UN official to discuss sexual violence…
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08.03.2016WOMEN, WAR AND PEACE: NAFISA’S STORY
In commemoration of International Women’s Day, Nuba Reports sits down with Nafisa Angelo, a refugee from the Nuba Mountains, Sudan, now living in Kenya. Nafisa had left the Nuba Mountains…
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07.03.2016
75 Trips to 22 Countries in 7 Years: An Indicted War Criminal’s Travels
President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan has clocked in thousands of miles flying across the world since 2009, despite being a wanted war criminal. Over seven years ago the International Criminal…
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02.03.2016A Q & A with Award-Winning Photographer Adriane Ohanesian
Adriane Ohanesian managed to travel last year to the rebel-controlled Jebel Marra area of Darfur, Sudan. It was one of the only, if not the only, time a foreign journalist…