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Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) sentenced a leader of the feared Sudanese Janjaweed militia to 20 years imprisonment Tuesday for war crimes and crimes against …
Read More »Members of Canadian Sudanese community feel abandoned after violence escalates in Sudan
Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Despite Sudan’s paramilitary agreeing to a proposal from the United States and Arab powers for a humanitarian ceasefire on Thursday, members of Toronto’s Sudanese community say they …
Read More »Sudanese fighters accused of massacres use Canadian-made rifles
Weapons bearing the logo of a Canadian arms manufacturer have been identified in the hands of a paramilitary group in Sudan responsible for massacres of civilians, analysis by CBC’s visual investigations unit has found. The civil war that erupted on April 15, 2023, has wreaked havoc on civilian infrastructure, decimated …
Read More »Sudanese militia commander convicted for Darfur war crimes at International Criminal Court
The International Criminal Court on Monday convicted a leader of the feared Janjaweed militia of playing a leading role in a campaign of atrocities committed in the Sudanese region of Darfur more than 20 years ago. It was the first time the court has convicted a suspect of crimes in …
Read More »Sudanese Canadians say barriers to filing federal paperwork are harming efforts to get loved ones safe refuge
Some Sudanese Canadians are calling out Ottawa for rejecting their applications to privately sponsor loved ones fleeing conflict without making it clear what’s missing in their paperwork or how they can fix any errors. Samah Mahmoud is a London, Ont., immigration consultant whose own application for her sister was rejected. Mahmoud …
Read More »Sudanese Quebecers wait in anguish after exclusion from program to rescue family members
Mayada Ageeb has been holding protests in downtown Montreal every two weeks, calling for Quebec and Canada to do more to rescue the families of Sudanese Canadians from a war that has been raging for nearly two years and which has displaced more than 12 million people. The situation in …
Read More »Sudanese Canadians decry delays in bringing their family members to safety
This story is part of Welcome to Canada, a CBC News series about immigration told through the eyes of the people who have experienced it. For more than a year and a half, Ismail Adam, 61, of Mississauga, Ont., has been seized with dread every time he receives a phone call. …
Read More »At least 120 killed by Sudanese paramilitary group in multi-day rampage, UN and doctors’ group say
Fighters from the notorious paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces (RSF) ran riot in east-central Sudan in a multi-day attack that killed more than 120 people in one town, a doctors’ group and the United Nations said. It was the group’s latest attack against the Sudanese military after suffering a series …
Read More »Sudanese Montrealers grow anxious as Quebec offers no solution to help loved ones flee war
When Sudanese Montrealer Thowiba Mansour found out that the federal government had set up a temporary program to reunite people in the war-torn country with their Canadian families, she was so excited that she couldn’t sleep. “I was very happy, I was just planning how I would get my family …
Read More »‘No law and order’: Calgary man who lived in Sudan worries for friends in Khartoum
Jose Tenga has worked in conflict zones in five African countries and now calls Calgary home, but still has friends in Sudan from when he lived in Khartoum. “It’s very distressing. These guys are worried about the way the fighting has spread throughout the city. You cannot say there is …
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