ANKARA (AA) – Al Jazeera journalist Hisham Abdelaziz was released after being held for almost four years in pre-trial detention in Egypt, the Doha-based news network announced on Monday. Abdelaziz, an Egyptian journalist who works for Al Jazeera’s Mubasher channel, was released early Monday. Abdelaziz was arrested in June 2019 while traveling ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh, discussing the ongoing mediation efforts in Sudan, said the prime minister’s office on Monday. “Prime Minister Trudeau expressed deep concern about the conflict in Sudan and its impact on the humanitarian ...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Fierce fighting broke out again Monday between Sudan’s army and paramilitaries despite the formal extension of a truce, after the United Nations warned the humanitarian situation had reached “breaking point”. More than 500 people have been killed since battles erupted on April 15 between Sudan’s d...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): A Red Cross plane laden with humanitarian aid on Sunday landed in Sudan, where deadly clashes between rival generals’ forces have entered their third week. “The eight tonnes of humanitarian cargo includes surgical material to support Sudanese hospitals and volunteers from the Sudan Red Crescent Society,”...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Heavy fighting rocked Khartoum Sunday as a former prime minister warned of the “nightmare” risk of a descent into full-scale civil war. Army forces clashed with paramilitaries in Khartoum as deadly hostilities have entered a third week despite the latest ceasefire, which was formally set to expire at the end ...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The fighting in Sudan has forced a huge number of people to seek sanctuary in neighbouring countries. The picture is “very chaotic”, UNHCR refugee agency spokesman Matt Saltmarsh stated on Friday. “There are huge numbers of people moving inside the country but also moving towards the borders,”...
Paris, France (AFP): Three suitcases sit piled on top of one another in 95-year-old Yoro Diao’s cramped studio apartment outside Paris. After nearly 20 years of living thousands of miles from his family so he could claim his French army pension, the old soldier is finally being allowed to return to live in his native […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan, China and Japan have evacuated hundreds of their citizens from war-torn Sudan in recent days, officials say. The first charter flight carrying 343 Chinese nationals, evacuated from Sudan via Saudi Arabia, landed at the Beijing Capital International Airport, the state-run Global Times reported. On Thursday, the ...
Lome, Togo (AFP): Around 40 soldiers and 100 civilians have been killed in northern Togo, President Faure Gnassingbe has said in a ground-breaking interview. The small West African nation, along with neighbouring Benin, Ghana and Ivory Coast, is increasingly facing threats of a spillover insurgency from Burkina Faso and Mali. “We have pa...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Palestinians embraced at the Egyptian border with the blockaded Gaza Strip on Friday as students returned home after fleeing the violence in Sudan. Gaza’s Crossing and Border Authority said “172 students arrived in the homeland through the Rafah border crossing, as the first batch of students c...
