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Ingram in October 2024, in a shelter in Beirut.

From Perth to Manhattan to Sudan, this is the year that changed my life

I haven’t felt that way about many, if any, of the 34 years I lived before this one. But I am certain what I experienced in 2024 will stay with me forever.

  • Tess Ingram

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Mohamed Ahmed Omer – the first person in Victoria to be prosecuted for the Commonwealth offence of exit-trafficking – was found guilty in the County Court in April.

‘Discarded at your will’: Abusive man jailed for stranding wife in Africa

Mohamed Ahmed Omer, who abandoned his wife in Sudan before returning to Australia with their young children, was handed a four-year sentence.

  • Emily Woods
Smoke risse over Khartoum after Sudan’s military started an operation to take areas of the capital from its rival, the RSF, in September.

Mass civilian deaths reported after Sudan’s army ups airstrikes

The war between the army and paramilitary forces has already created the world’s largest displacement crisis and caused famine.

  • Nafisa Eltahir
Bibi Rahimi, from Afghanistan, one of several thousand refugees stranded in Indonesia who will lose their UNHCR funding.

Bibi was given $4 a day to survive. Now that allowance has been cut to zero

As humanitarian crises unfold around the globe, the United Nations is looking at its books.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
Ukraine wheat arrives in Port Sudan last month.

Ukraine is employing a new weapon against Russia: sending aid to Africa

Even as the war-torn nation defends its homeland against the Russian invasion, it is delivering major shipments to vulnerable populations.

  • Rob Harris
Palestinian masked members from the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades, a military wing of Hamas, ride next to a rocket launcher during a rally in Rafah refugee camp, Gaza Strip, in 2016.

Mining, chickens, equity fund. Hamas’ money machine ignored by Israel

The ledgers, pilfered from the computer of a senior Hamas official, listed assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Netanyahu “didn’t care much about it”.

  • Jo Becker and Justin Scheck
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‘Attack everything’: Russia-linked hackers claim they knocked OpenAI offline this week

Anonymous Sudan presents itself as a “hacktivist” gang that is waging attacks out of Africa, but cybersecurity researchers say its targets consistently match the Kremlin’s geopolitical priorities.

  • Ryan Gallagher
The Greater Nile Petroleum Oil Company Tower in the centre of Khartoum, Sudan, on fire on September 19.

Landmark office tower burns in Sudan’s capital turned into urban war zone

The headquarters of the oil company and buildings of government agencies have been destroyed.

A man walks by a house hit in recent fighting in Khartoum.

‘My kids were born in Sydney, they’ll never see my home’: War tears up Australian families

The RAAF evacuated 36 Australians and their families from Sudan overnight but dozens remain stranded amid the bloody conflict.

  • Olivia Ireland
A house in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum after it was hit during what now appears to be developing into a civil war.

UN warns more than 800,000 refugees could flee fighting in Sudan

The United Nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis in Sudan as fighting continues between rival military factions despite a supposed ceasefire.

  • El Tayeb Siddig and Nafisa Eltahir

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