Six months after fighting began in Sudan on 15 April, a UN spokesman said on Tuesday that nearly 4.000 people had been killed and thousands injured

The military government rejected the request for a UN fact-finding mission to send an international force to protect civilians from the civil war

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation labelled the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces as 'a rebel force': the first time an international body has used this definition in a resolution

The country has declared a cholera epidemic, with 22 deaths recorded in the past weeks; WHO recently made known that 78 cholera deaths were recorded in Sudan between 1 January and 28 July this year

The head of the Sudanese army, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, will move his headquarters to Omdurman, the twin city of the capital Khartoum, to personally lead military operations