The determination came as the United States announced sanctions against the Sudanese military chief, saying there was strong evidence of atrocities in the country.

The worse Sudan’s self-appointed leaders behave, however, the more nobly its people respond. In West Kordofan state, on the country’s southern border, Salah Almogadm had been working at the Ministry of Agriculture. His job disappeared with the war.

Amid what a Catholic charity called "unimaginable" suffering of civilians trapped in civil war brutality in Sudan, the United States declared that one of the fighting factions is committing genocide in the country and slapped sanctions on its leader.

Peace is so hard to find in Sudan because both sides are focused on absolute victory rather than negotiations, according to a member of the bishops’ conference.

The United Nations human rights chief Volker Turk warned Friday that the war in Sudan is becoming "more dangerous" for civilians. The statement follows reports from rights groups of army-allied militias carrying out ethnic-based attacks on minorities in the state of Al-Jazira.

On September 9, 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to deliver much-anticipated testimony on the crisis in Sudan’s western region of Darfur. Eighteen minutes into his remarks, he became the first executive branch official in U.S. history to declare an ongoing conflict a “genocide.”

As the war increasingly threatens to split Sudan into rival mini-states, it not only offers an insight into the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in the country, but also a glimpse of its possible future.

THE United States (US) government has imposed sanctions on the head of Sudan’s army and de facto president, Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan. He has been leading one of the two sides in the 21-month civil war that has killed tens of thousands,

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Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by Moscow to lessen Western influence on the continent.