WASHINGTON (AA) – The US confirmed Wednesday the death of a second American in Sudan. “We can confirm the death of a second American citizen yesterday. We extend our deepest condolences to the family,” White House national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters. Kirby said the leadership of the Sudanese armed forces ...
United Nations, United States (AFP): The United Nations head of mission to Sudan denounced on Tuesday the “disregard for the laws and norms of war” in the conflict that has seen civilians and hospitals attacked. “Both of the warring parties have fought with disregard for the laws and norms of war, attacking densely populated ...
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (AFP): A ship carrying 1,687 civilians from more than 50 countries fleeing violence in Sudan docked in Saudi Arabia Wednesday, the foreign ministry said, the largest evacuation effort by the Gulf kingdom so far. Saudi Arabia has received several rounds of evacuees by air and sea since fighting broke out in Africa’s [...
Garabulli, Libya (AFP): The Libyan coastguard on Tuesday recovered the bodies of 11 migrants including a child after their Europe-bound boat sank off the North African country’s coast, an AFP journalist said. The coastguard also came to the aid of at least four survivors of the shipwreck who were able to swim to shore. It […]
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): A US-brokered ceasefire between Sudan’s warring generals entered its second day Wednesday but remained fragile after witnesses reported fresh air strikes and paramilitaries claimed to have seized a major oil refinery and power plant. “The pause was not fully upheld, with attacks on headquarters, attempts to g...
YORUBA, South Sudan (AA) – Over 10,000 people have arrived in South Sudan since fighting broke out between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan. The returnees and refugees have reportedly arrived in the border town of Renk in Upper Nile state and Aweil North County in Northern Bahr El Ghazal state. Kak […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Chad has dismissed as “false” a media report that the country has provided support to one of the warring factions in Sudan. The report, citing “a Chadian diplomatic source,” has recently been published. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs…wishes to formally deny this false information,” it said in a statement. The gove...
ANKARA (AA) — A local court on Mayotte, a French Indian Ocean island off East Africa, has intervened to suspend an operation to expel irregular migrants. France had scheduled the operation, dubbed Wuambushu, for Tuesday morning to move the migrants about 65 kilometers northwest to Anjouan, the closest island of the nearby archipelago nation Co...
Moroni, Comoros (AFP): Comoros has said that it refused to allow a boat carrying migrants from Mayotte to dock because French authorities have announced a controversial operation against illegal migrants. It also said it suspended passenger traffic at a port where deported migrants usually land. “As long as the French side decides to do ...
KIGALI, Rwanda/ DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – The death toll rose to more than 100 Tuesday from an attack last week by men dressed in military uniforms on a village in northern Burkina Faso. Residents calling themselves the Survivors of the Karma Attack said in a statement that the “cowardly and barbaric” killing in Yatenga province, […...
