Rescue teams were struggling to reach a remote mountain village in Sudan's Darfur region on Tuesday after a devastating landslide buried almost the entire community killing more than 1,000 people. Heavy rain triggered the disaster on Sunday, flattening the village of Tarasin in the Jebel Marra range, the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM) faction which controls the area said in a statement, adding that there was only one survivor. | The New Arab

A war that began two-and-a-half years ago between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese army has caused severe hunger and malnutrition to spread across Sudan, as well as displacing millions of people and triggering waves of ethnically charged violence in Darfur. A global hunger monitor has confirmed famine conditions in Al-Fasher, the Sudanese city taken by the RSF after a lengthy siege, as well as Kadugli, another besieged city in Sudan's south. International Criminal Cou