A look at the secret Egyptian base, hidden amid a vast agricultural project on the edge of the Sahara, that's playing a significant role in Sudan's expanding drone war - investigation in today's @nytimes with @malachybrowne Eric Schmitt and Nick Cumming-Bruce. Link in bio.
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A thrill to receive the Weintal Award at the Georgetown School of Foreign Service, and to speak about Sudan and the foreign powers that are fueling the war.
“I can’t really exaggerate, to be honest, the scale of the destruction in the city center. It’s really jaw-dropping.”
Declan Walsh, the New York Times’ chief Africe correspondent, was one of the first Western journalists to visit Sudan’s capital Khartoum since the civil war erupted two years ago. In April, Mina spoke with Walsh about what he saw, where the war stands and the humanitarian impact.
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It’s been two years this month since fighting broke out between the Sudanese military and the paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces, leading to a devastating civil war that’s so far killed more than 150,000 people and displaced 13 million while causing the world’s worst famine in decades.
The New York Times was the first Western outlet to report from the center of the Sudanese capital since the war erupted.
We talk to chief Africa correspondent Declan Walsh about where the war stands and the humanitarian impact.
📸: Ebrahim Hamid via Getty Images
[Image Caption: This picture shows a burnt and heavily damage building in Khartoum North, on March 17, 2025.]
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In Khartoum last week with @ivorprickett I was struck by how residents were so unusually happy to see a pair of foreign journalists because, they said, they felt they had been forgotten.
That's why it was such a special honor to receive a Polk award yesterday, along with the staff of The New York Times, for the work on Sudan.
We shared the honor with the brilliant editors who brought it all together. Pictured here: Greg Winter, Mikko Takkunen and Laurie Goodstein.
Missing is our indispensable Sudanese colleague @abdalrahmanaltayb
More to come on Sudan soon.
Momentous days in Khartoum. Nearly two years into Sudan's civil war, Rapid Support Forces paramilitaries are being routed from the capital at speed. After capturing the palace, the army has now taken the entire city center, and the battle is moving toward the nearby airport. Hard to see the R.S.F. holding on much longer.
I'm there with @ivorprickett , whose powerful pictures are part of our ongoing coverage in @nytimes .
These images of mine, from areas the RSF earlier fled, give a sense of what is left behind: hardbitten soldiers, homeless civilians, abandoned villas, empty detention cells and an oil-slicked, destroyed power plant.
After two years of fighting, Sudan's military has retaken the presidential palace in Khartoum. A key moment in a catastrophic civil war.
There are in fact two palaces in the same compound — the colonial-era building and a newer Chinese-built palace, completed in 2015. We saw both last week when we climbed to the top of an apartment block where Sudanese military snipers had taken position, on the far side of the Blue Nile. Other images were taken at positions along the river I visited with @ivorprickett and @abdalrahmanaltayb . We are still in Khartoum, reporting on what comes next.
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