Why in the news?

• Reports emerged detailing ethnically driven atrocities in the western Sudanese city of El-Fasher following its capture by paramilitary forces.

Sudan

• Location: Sudan is a East African country.
• Capital: Khartoum
• Border Countries: Central African Republic, Chad, Egypt , Red Sea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Libya, South Sudan.
• Bordering Waterbodies: Red Sea,Lake Nubia on the Sudanese-Egyptian border.
• Rivers: The Blue Nile and White Nile rivers meet in Khartoum to form the Nile, which flows northwards through Egypt to the Mediterranean Sea.
• Climate: Savannah Climate