Zawiyah, Libya (AFP): Libyans in the western city of Zawiya protested Thursday against militia groups they accuse of recruiting migrants into their ranks involved in alleged acts of torture, residents said. Zawiya, some 45 kilometres (28 miles) west of the capital Tripoli, is a key departure point for migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranea...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Fighting raged in Sudan on Friday, despite rival forces agreeing to extend a truce aimed to stem nearly two weeks of warfare that has killed hundreds and caused widespread destruction. In the capital Khartoum, where foreign nations are scrambling to organise mass evacuations of their citizens, Turkey’s defence mini...
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP): The United Nations has expressed concern over prison breaks and deepening impunity in Sudan as fighting continues, with a number of suspected war criminals taking advantage of the crisis to escape. Several jailbreaks, including of a high-security prison holding those suspected of war crimes, have taken place since vi...
Beijing, China – (AFP): Chinese navy ships sent to rescue citizens from conflict-hit Sudan have also evacuated nationals from five other countries, the foreign ministry in Beijing said. Multiple nations have scrambled to evacuate embassy staff and citizens by road, air and sea from Sudan, where fighting between the army and paramilitarie...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Nearly 200 Turkish citizens who were evacuated from Sudan via Ethiopia have arrived in Istanbul. A Turkish Airlines plane, which took off from Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa with 189 passengers on board, landed at Istanbul Airport at 1.10 a.m. local time on Wednesday. Naci Akgun, an evacuee, said he was running a [&...
Cairo, Egypt (AFP): As Sudan has descended into chaos, hundreds of families are heading for Egypt on bumpy and harrowing 1,000-kilometre road trips through the desert, braving military checkpoints along the way. Some of those who have made it across the Egyptian border to safety spoke of their fears as the cramped buses, with infants […...
BRUSSELS (AA) — The daughter of Rached Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, called on the EU on Wednesday to take action against authorities in her country for detaining politicians. The EU “should impose sanctions” on Tunisian President Kais Saied and his government, Yusra Ghannouchi told a press conference ...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – Uganda announced on Wednesday that its peacekeeping troops in Somalia will leave by December of next year. Foreign Minister Abubaker Jeje Odongo made the announcement at a meeting of officials from countries contributing troops to the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), which has been taking place in Kam...
ANKARA (AA) – Egypt said Wednesday members of its diplomatic mission in Khartoum had been relocated to a safer place outside the Sudanese capital. A Foreign Ministry statement cited “increasing threats and security risks” for the move, which came two days after an embassy staff member was killed in Khartoum. The statement said the relocation [...
JUBA, South Sudan (AA) – Around 16,000 South Sudanese nationals have fled home from Sudan since fighting broke out earlier this month in the capital Khartoum and other areas, a government official said Wednesday. “We have refugees from other nationalities, including Sudan, and the exact number is yet to be identified, and we have r...
