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Original photographs document damage to buildings, destroyed interiors, and remnants of ammunition in Khartoum North (Bahri), Sudan, on 26 August 2025, offering a visual record of the war’s impact on the city’s urban environment.
A record number of countries voted to renew the fact-finding mission. Human Rights Watch says they stopped short of giving it the means to preserve evidence.
A UN-backed hunger monitor says child malnutrition in two Darfur camps is above the famine threshold, and only a quarter of the sickest children are being treated.
A Sudanese rights group says at least 72 people died at a remote mining site and blames Egypt's air force. Cairo has not commented.
The Security Council agreed only a short "technical rollover". In Darfur, 700,000 displaced people in one town are short of food, water and medicine.
More than 700,000 displaced people in Tawila face severe shortages, the agency's Sudan chief says. The UN Security Council has meanwhile extended its Sudan sanctions for two months.
A new statistical model puts the likely 2025 toll far above the confirmed counts. It comes as a record number of countries vote to keep the UN's Sudan investigation running.
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